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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

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Likes Losing
I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Outspoken Pro
My worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSH

Expectations Happened Worst
. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
BARBARA BUSH

America Important Learning
I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
BARBARA BUSH

Home Love Talking
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
BARBARA BUSH

Blue Mind Waste
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’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSH

Justice Nice Thinking
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
BARBARA BUSH

Family Inspirational Mean
I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
BARBARA BUSH

Parent Parenting Worried
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
Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSH

Advice Care Wife
Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
BARBARA BUSH

Feel Gender Made
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
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
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
I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSH

House Missing White
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
There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
BARBARA BUSH

President Running Way
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
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
BARBARA BUSH

Boys Handful Trust Me
George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
BARBARA BUSH

House Littles Texas
I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
BARBARA BUSH

Courageous Office Running
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
BARBARA BUSH

Knows Likes Ugly
Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
BARBARA BUSH

Blood Inspirational Money
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Mom Mother

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.

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