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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

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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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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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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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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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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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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. . . 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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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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