If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
BARBARA BUSHIf more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
BARBARA BUSHYou can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
BARBARA BUSHIt was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
BARBARA BUSHThe First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
BARBARA BUSHSome people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
BARBARA BUSHI’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.
BARBARA BUSHI’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSHThe 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.
BARBARA BUSHTo 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 BUSHMy son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
BARBARA BUSHI may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
BARBARA BUSHThe home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
BARBARA BUSHI’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
BARBARA BUSHYou have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
BARBARA BUSHRaising five boys is a handful, trust me.
BARBARA BUSHLibraries 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.
BARBARA BUSH