I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSHI think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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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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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
BARBARA BUSH