I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
BARBARA BUSHI hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
BARBARA BUSHI really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
BARBARA BUSHSuddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
BARBARA BUSHRaising five boys is a handful, trust me.
BARBARA BUSHI’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
BARBARA BUSHTo this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
BARBARA BUSHWell, 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 BUSHIf human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
BARBARA BUSHIt seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
BARBARA BUSHValue your friendship. Value your relationships.
BARBARA BUSHShow me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSHYou have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
BARBARA BUSHThe home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
BARBARA BUSHWhy be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
BARBARA BUSHMy worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSHNancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSH