Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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I don’t like attacking.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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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.
BARBARA BUSH