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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
Barbara Bush
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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.
Barbara Bush
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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 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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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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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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. . . 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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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