I don’t like attacking.
BARBARA BUSHThe Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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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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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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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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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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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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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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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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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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