I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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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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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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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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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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