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.
BARBARA BUSHNobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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 think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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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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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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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