I think the country has had enough Bushes.
BARBARA BUSHI don’t like attacking.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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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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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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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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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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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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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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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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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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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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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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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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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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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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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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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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