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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.

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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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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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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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 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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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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