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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

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Likes Losing
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
BARBARA BUSH

Clean Dumb Family Guess
. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
BARBARA BUSH

America Important Learning
And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSH

Anarchy Arena People
My worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSH

Expectations Happened Worst
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Done Library Thinking
Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
BARBARA BUSH

Book House White
I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH

Dirty Hate Naughty
I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Healthy Thinking
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
BARBARA BUSH

Bad Boys Right Son
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Basketball Dull Weakness
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
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
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
BARBARA BUSH

Dream Race Society
I’m a little old-fashioned.
BARBARA BUSH

Fashioned Littles Old
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
BARBARA BUSH

Political Powerful Thinking

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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