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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 don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
Barbara Bush
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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!
Barbara Bush
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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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.
Barbara Bush
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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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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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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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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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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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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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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