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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
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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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'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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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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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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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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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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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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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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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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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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