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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.

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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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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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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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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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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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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