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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

Barbara Bush

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.
BARBARA BUSH

Country People Writing
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?
BARBARA BUSH

Beautiful Mean War
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
BARBARA BUSH

Family Friendship Inspirational
I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSH

Justice Nice Thinking
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
BARBARA BUSH

Bad Boys Right Son
I don’t like attacking.
BARBARA BUSH

Action Attacking Like Plan
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
BARBARA BUSH

Friendship Good Life Values
The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
BARBARA BUSH

Conventions Opinion Platform
Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
BARBARA BUSH

Family House White
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Family House White
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSH

Able Garden Want
George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
BARBARA BUSH

House Littles Texas
I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Outspoken Pro
Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Family Mother
And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSH

Anarchy Arena People
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
BARBARA BUSH

Family Inspirational Mean
You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
BARBARA BUSH

Die Sister Six Tell Years
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
BARBARA BUSH

Clean Dumb Family Guess
I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
BARBARA BUSH

Parent Parenting Worried
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Loss Thinking
Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
BARBARA BUSH

Believe Ideas Time
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
BARBARA BUSH

Parent People Women
Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSH

Advice Care Wife
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Home Love Talking
Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
BARBARA BUSH

Feel Gender Made
You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
BARBARA BUSH

Love Thank Witty You
I think the country has had enough Bushes.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Politics Thinking

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