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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

I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH

Dirty Hate Naughty
Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
BARBARA BUSH

Discovery Eye Life
Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
BARBARA BUSH

Home Veterans Day Work
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
I’m a little old-fashioned.
BARBARA BUSH

Fashioned Littles Old
Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
BARBARA BUSH

Believe Ideas Time
One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
BARBARA BUSH

Boredom Jobs May
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSH

Able Garden Want
The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
BARBARA BUSH

Doe First Matter
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
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
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
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 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

Controversial Cost Government
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

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