I don’t like attacking.
BARBARA BUSHDescribing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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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 mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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