You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
BARBARA BUSHAnd who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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 hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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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.
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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.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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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.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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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.
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To 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.’
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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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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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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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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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