I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSHI want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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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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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 may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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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.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
BARBARA BUSH