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" I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren. "
Barbara Bush
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" Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler. "
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" Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not. "
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" At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. "
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" Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things. "
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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. "
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" You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other. "
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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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" I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting. "
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" People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring. "
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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. "
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" I don't like the blame game, though. "
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" You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect. "
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" To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. "
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" My health is very good. "
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" I'm tired now of the elections. "
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" I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. "
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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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