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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

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
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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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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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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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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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, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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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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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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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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