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.’
BARBARA BUSHI think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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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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.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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