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.
BARBARA BUSHThe home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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!
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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 mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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