I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSHI hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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 little old-fashioned.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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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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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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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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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