Barbara Bush Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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 do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or that or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that, and watch him (her husband, former president George H. W. Bush) suffer?
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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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You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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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 don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.