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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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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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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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