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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

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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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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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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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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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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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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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.
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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 have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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. . . 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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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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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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