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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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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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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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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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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.
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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 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 try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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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 can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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 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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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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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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