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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.

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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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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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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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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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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 loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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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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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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