I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSHThere are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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