My worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSHI’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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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.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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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.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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.
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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.
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I don’t like attacking.
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