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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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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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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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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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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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 saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.
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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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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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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 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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