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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.

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
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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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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 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 try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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 really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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