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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.

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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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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As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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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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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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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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. . . 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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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'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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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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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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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 winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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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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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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