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.
BARBARA BUSHThree 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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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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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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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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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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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