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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. "
Barbara Bush
Think
Wife
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" Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election. "
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" Value your friendship. Value your relationships. "
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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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" 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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" Raising five boys is a handful, trust me. "
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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 hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word. "
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" The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions. "
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" Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not. "
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" I don't like attacking. "
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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. "
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" People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring. "
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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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" And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well! "
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Day
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" You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. "
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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
Time
" I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over. "
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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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" My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George? "
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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. "
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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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Country
Healthy
" Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend. "
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Everything
More
" I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all. "
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" Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. "
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" You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way. "
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" My worst expectations never happened. "
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" I'm taking a vow not to advise. "
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" I don't like the blame game, though. "
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