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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.

Barbara Bush

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Nancy People Perfectionist
The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
BARBARA BUSH

Ark Built Volunteer
You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Helping Overseas Someone Trying
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
BARBARA BUSH

President Thinking Wife
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 BUSH

Book House White
The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
BARBARA BUSH

Doe First Matter
I think the country has had enough Bushes.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Politics Thinking
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
BARBARA BUSH

Friendship Good Life Values
I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSH

House Missing White
I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
BARBARA BUSH

Airplane Anything Jump Know
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 BUSH

Country People Writing
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.’
BARBARA BUSH

Discipline Shapes Writing
I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Healthy Thinking
I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
BARBARA BUSH

Parent Parenting Worried
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
BARBARA BUSH

Clean Dumb Family Guess
The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Reading Teacher

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