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.
BARBARA BUSHGeorge is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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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.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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I don’t like attacking.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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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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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.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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