I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSHEverything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I don’t like attacking.
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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