But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
BARBARA BUSHI mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I don’t like attacking.
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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 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 togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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