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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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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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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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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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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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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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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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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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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 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 personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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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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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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