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Barbara Bush

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
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’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
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
BARBARA BUSH

Knows Likes Ugly
You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Done Listening Married
I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
BARBARA BUSH

Home Love Talking
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Likes Losing
I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
BARBARA BUSH

Airplane Anything Jump Know
I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Loss Thinking
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Choices Hate
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
BARBARA BUSH

Clean Dumb Family Guess
The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
BARBARA BUSH

Doe First Matter
My worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSH

Expectations Happened Worst
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
BARBARA BUSH

Family Important Thinking
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
BARBARA BUSH

Basketball Dull Weakness
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
BARBARA BUSH

Controversial Cost Government

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