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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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Nobody
Politics

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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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.
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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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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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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I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.
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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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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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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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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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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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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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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 what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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