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 BUSHI’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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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.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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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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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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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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