The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
BARBARA BUSHI want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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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.
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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 you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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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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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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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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