I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSHBut 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?
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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