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.
BARBARA BUSHThe 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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 us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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. . . 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.
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