Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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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’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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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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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I’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.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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