I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
BARBARA BUSHValue your friendship. Value your relationships.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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’m a little old-fashioned.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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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.
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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I don’t like attacking.
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