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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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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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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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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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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 may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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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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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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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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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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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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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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