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.
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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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’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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 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 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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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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 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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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I don’t like attacking.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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