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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.

Barbara Bush

Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
BARBARA BUSH

Discovery Eye Life
Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
BARBARA BUSH

Family House White
Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
BARBARA BUSH

Done Library Thinking
I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSH

House Missing White
Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
BARBARA BUSH

Home Veterans Day Work
You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Helping Overseas Someone Trying
The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
BARBARA BUSH

Doe First Matter
I don’t like attacking.
BARBARA BUSH

Action Attacking Like Plan
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
BARBARA BUSH

Political Powerful Thinking
Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Family Mother
I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
BARBARA BUSH

Mean People Rights
Raising George Walker was not easy.
BARBARA BUSH

Easy Raise Walker
I’m a little old-fashioned.
BARBARA BUSH

Fashioned Littles Old
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
BARBARA BUSH

Family Inspirational Mean
Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
BARBARA BUSH

Careers Fun Talking
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
BARBARA BUSH

President Thinking Wife
Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
BARBARA BUSH

Changed Good People Things
As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
BARBARA BUSH

Golf Husband Two
The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
BARBARA BUSH

Interesting Political Trying
But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
BARBARA BUSH

Beautiful Mean War
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
BARBARA BUSH

Inspirational Life Meaningful
The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Reading Teacher
I’m taking a vow not to advise.
BARBARA BUSH

Advise Take Vow
Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
BARBARA BUSH

Book House White
I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Healthy Thinking
Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Integrity Teaching
I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
BARBARA BUSH

Bomb Gun Mean

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