You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
BARBARA BUSHYou can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
BARBARA BUSHI love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
BARBARA BUSHThe First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
BARBARA BUSHEverything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
BARBARA BUSHYou may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
BARBARA BUSHI really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSHThe personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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.
BARBARA BUSHI want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSHAnd so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSHWell, 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.
BARBARA BUSHShow me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSHAs if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
BARBARA BUSHBias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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 BUSHIt was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
BARBARA BUSH