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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.
Barbara Bush -
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.
Barbara Bush
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
Barbara Bush -
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush -
Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you.
Barbara Bush -
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.
Barbara Bush -
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush -
People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
Barbara Bush
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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
Barbara Bush -
I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
Barbara Bush -
Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
Barbara Bush -
And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Barbara Bush -
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
Barbara Bush -
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
Barbara Bush
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My worst expectations never happened.
Barbara Bush -
I don't like attacking.
Barbara Bush -
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
Barbara Bush -
I have a pig valve.
Barbara Bush -
I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.
Barbara Bush -
You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
Barbara Bush
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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.
Barbara Bush -
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
Barbara Bush -
I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
Barbara Bush -
Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
Barbara Bush