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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.

Barbara Bush

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

Children Done Listening Married
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 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 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.
BARBARA BUSH

Firsts Important Years
You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Helping Overseas Someone Trying
As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
BARBARA BUSH

Golf Husband Two
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
BARBARA BUSH

Friendship Good Life Values
And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
BARBARA BUSH

Inspirational White Women
I’m taking a vow not to advise.
BARBARA BUSH

Advise Take Vow
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
BARBARA BUSH

Building Family Friends Important
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Mom Mother
I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
BARBARA BUSH

Parent Parenting Worried
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Love Marriage
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
BARBARA BUSH

Inspirational Life Meaningful
And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSH

Anarchy Arena People
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSH

Able Garden Want
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Discovery Eye Life
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
BARBARA BUSH

Family Important Thinking
Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
BARBARA BUSH

Believe Ideas Time
Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSH

Advice Care Wife
To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
BARBARA BUSH

Discipline Shapes Writing
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Book House White
My worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSH

Expectations Happened Worst
The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
BARBARA BUSH

Conventions Opinion Platform
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 BUSH

Country Integrity Teaching
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Congratulations Success Teaching

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