To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
BARBARA BUSHMy son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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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.
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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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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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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.’
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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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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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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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.
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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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