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Barbara Bush

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
BARBARA BUSH

Family House White
I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Outspoken Pro
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Country People Writing
Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Family Mother
. . . 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.
BARBARA BUSH

America Important Learning
I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
BARBARA BUSH

Complicated Country Mean
People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
BARBARA BUSH

Hair People Worry
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSH

Able Garden Want
The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Reading Teacher
I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
BARBARA BUSH

Courageous Office Running
I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH

Dirty Hate Naughty
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
BARBARA BUSH

Half Mother President
I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSH

Justice Nice Thinking
I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
BARBARA BUSH

Bomb Gun Mean
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
BARBARA BUSH

Knows Likes Ugly
I’m a little old-fashioned.
BARBARA BUSH

Fashioned Littles Old

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