I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
BARBARA BUSHEverything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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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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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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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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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 don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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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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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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Describing 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.
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