Barbara Bush Quotes
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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!
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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.
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I'm tired now of the elections.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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My health is very good.
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I've done it all.
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I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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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.
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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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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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Somewhere out 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!
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.