I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
BARBARA BUSHNever lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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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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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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I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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