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.
BARBARA BUSHNobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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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 mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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