Barbara Bush Quotes - Page 3

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• I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

  Barbara Bush

  Garden, Want, Able

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• Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It's been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving's better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam's Club.

  Barbara Bush

  Life, Eye, Discovery

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• Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

  Barbara Bush

  Children, Likes, Losing

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", www.cnn.com. April 17, 2018.

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• To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.'

  Barbara Bush

  Writing, Discipline, Shapes

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• I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

  Barbara Bush

  Children, Husband, Marvelous

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• I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

  Barbara Bush

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  Barbara Bush

  White, House, Missing

  "Erin Burnett Outfront", www.cnn.com. April 17, 2018.

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• I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

  Barbara Bush

  Hate, Choices, Abortion

  Barbara Bush (2015). “Barbara Bush: A Memoir”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the country has had enough Bushes.

  Barbara Bush

  Country, Thinking, Politics

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• I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

  Barbara Bush

  Government, Cost, Controversial

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• It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

  Barbara Bush

  Clean

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• Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

  Barbara Bush

  Gender, Made, Feels

  "Barbara Bush, Former First Lady, Dies At Age 92" by Mollie Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2018.

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• You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.

  Barbara Bush

  Trying, Helping

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• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

  Barbara Bush

  Airplane, Knows

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• The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

  Barbara Bush

  Interesting, Political, Trying

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Book, White, House

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• The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

  Barbara Bush

  Doe, Matter, Firsts

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• Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

  Barbara Bush

  People, Good Things, Changed

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• It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

  Barbara Bush

  Track, Car, Pool

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Blue, Mind, Waste

  TIME magazine, August 24, 1992.

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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

  Running, President, Way

  "UN climate chief says communism is tops at fighting global warming". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. January 17, 2014.

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• And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.

  Barbara Bush

  People, Anarchy, Arena

  "Marketplace" with Kai Ryssdal (radio program), March 6, 2005.

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• I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

  Barbara Bush

  Country, Mean, Complicated

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Running, Office, Courageous

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• I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

  Barbara Bush

  Abortion, Outspoken

  "THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Barbara Bush; First Lady on Abortion: Not a Platform Issue" by Alessandra Stanley, www.nytimes.com. August 14, 1992.

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