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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.

Barbara Bush

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.
BARBARA BUSH

Home Veterans Day Work
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
BARBARA BUSH

Half Mother President
I’m tired now of the elections.
BARBARA BUSH

Election Tired
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Country People Writing
I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
BARBARA BUSH

Bomb Gun Mean
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
BARBARA BUSH

Friendship Good Life Values
The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
BARBARA BUSH

Conventions Opinion Platform
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Choices Hate
Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSH

Advice Care Wife
People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
BARBARA BUSH

Hair People Worry
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
BARBARA BUSH

Building Family Friends Important
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Arms Kids Strong
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
BARBARA BUSH

Controversial Cost Government
I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH

Dirty Hate Naughty
You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Helping Overseas Someone Trying
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
BARBARA BUSH

Family Important Thinking

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