I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
BARBARA BUSHI think the country has had enough Bushes.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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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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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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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.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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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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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.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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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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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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