I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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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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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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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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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