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Politics is a people business. I like people.

Laura Bush

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Laura Bush
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 4
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Former First Lady Of The United States
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Laura Welch Bush
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.
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A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.
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Don't start smoking. It's much harder to stop than it is not to start at all.
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We seldom give each other advice-I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage.
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When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.
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A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
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I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.
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I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?
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For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.
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Books are important. They help you sleep at night.
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certainly the women's health part is something that I've become very interested in. It's not something I thought about when George [Bush] was elected...what I'd always been interested in was education.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.
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We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.
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It's a huge advantage to have parents who read to you. And it's an advantage that lasts a lifetime.
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It's really important for boys to have a father around, or a grandfather, or an uncle - a man they can really relate to who loves them, and who they know loves them.
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No one likes to be criticized.
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I'm not the one who was elected. Although she disagreed with her husband on a lot of issues, she emphasized, I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
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What I want for children in our country and around the world is safe, stable and loving homes.
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