I’m tired now of the elections.
BARBARA BUSHYou know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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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.
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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.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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