I’m a little old-fashioned.
BARBARA BUSHI decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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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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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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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.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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.
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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.
BARBARA BUSH