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.
BARBARA BUSHNobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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.
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
BARBARA BUSH