I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
BARBARA BUSH