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.
BARBARA BUSHI hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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. . . 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.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t like attacking.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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