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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.

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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Overseas
Something
Single
Maybe
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American
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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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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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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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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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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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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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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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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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