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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

Barbara Bush

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Barbara Bush
Age: 92 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 8
Died: 2018
Died: April 17
Former First Lady Of The United States
Politician
Manhattan borough
New York City
Barbara Pierce Bush
Barbara Pierce
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Ugly
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Nobody
Politics

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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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 a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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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.
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Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.
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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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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!
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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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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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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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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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