Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
BARBARA BUSHRaising five boys is a handful, trust me.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I don’t like attacking.
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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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