I’m taking a vow not to advise.
BARBARA BUSHNobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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 think the country has had enough Bushes.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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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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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 mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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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’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.
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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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