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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
Barbara Pierce
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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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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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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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. . . 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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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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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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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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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 mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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