And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSHI hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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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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I’m tired now of the elections.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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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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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH