My worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSHYour 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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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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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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 hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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