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Barbara Bush

There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
BARBARA BUSH

President Running Way
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
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
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
Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSH

Advice Care Wife
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
BARBARA BUSH

Political Powerful Thinking
The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Dirty Family
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
BARBARA BUSH

Inspirational Life Meaningful
The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
BARBARA BUSH

Doe First Matter
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
BARBARA BUSH

Parent People Women
Libraries 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

Done Library Thinking
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 BUSH

Country Integrity Teaching
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Choices Hate
The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
BARBARA BUSH

Ark Built Volunteer
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Loss Thinking
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
BARBARA BUSH

Half Mother President

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