Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
BARBARA BUSHThe personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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I don’t like attacking.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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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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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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