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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

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
BARBARA BUSH

Generosity Giving Memorable
The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
BARBARA BUSH

Conventions Opinion Platform
And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSH

Anarchy Arena People
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Mom Mother
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Family House White
Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
BARBARA BUSH

Changed Good People Things
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
BARBARA BUSH

Family Inspirational Mean
I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
BARBARA BUSH

Bomb Gun Mean
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
I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
BARBARA BUSH

Firsts Important Years
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
BARBARA BUSH

Building Family Friends Important
Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Nancy People Perfectionist
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Likes Losing
I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
BARBARA BUSH

Parent Parenting Worried
The 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 BUSH

Interesting Political Trying
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
BARBARA BUSH

Half Mother President

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