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 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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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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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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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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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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I don’t like attacking.
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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 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.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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