I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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I don’t like attacking.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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If 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.
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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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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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