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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.

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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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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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 really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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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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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 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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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at 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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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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