I think the country has had enough Bushes.
BARBARA BUSH. . . 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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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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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 try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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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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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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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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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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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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