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" I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion. "
Barbara Bush
Con
Pro
Abortion
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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! "
Barbara Bush
Someone
Day
White
" I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country. "
Barbara Bush
Complicated
Afghanistan
Mean
" Let's judge a man on what he's done. "
Barbara Bush
Man
He
Judge
" The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions. "
Barbara Bush
Personal
Left
Opinion
" I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word. "
Barbara Bush
Hate
People
Dirty
" The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream. "
Barbara Bush
Realize
Dream
Society
" People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring. "
Barbara Bush
Time
Hair
Boring
" 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
Lost
You
" 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
You
Yourself
Face
" I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren. "
Barbara Bush
Husband
Grandchildren
Children
" You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way. "
Barbara Bush
Hard
You
Way
" Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted. "
Barbara Bush
Wasted
My Life
Me
" Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend. "
Barbara Bush
Better
Everything
More
" I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice. "
Barbara Bush
Person
Women
Think
" To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. "
Barbara Bush
Being There
Your
Us
" I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong. "
Barbara Bush
Really
Very
Up
" 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. "
Barbara Bush
Important
You
Great
" You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities. "
Barbara Bush
Opportunities
Luck
Step
" Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics. "
Barbara Bush
Nobody
Likes
Know
" 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. "
Barbara Bush
Family
Treat
Success
" Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time. "
Barbara Bush
Yourself
Believe
Time
" I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else. "
Barbara Bush
Hate
Choice
Just
" 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
You
" 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
Money
Pick
Project
" I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. "
Barbara Bush
Family
Think
Important
" Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not. "
Barbara Bush
Reagan
Perfectionist
Nancy
" I don't like the blame game, though. "
Barbara Bush
Like
Game
Blame
" 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
You
Try
Political
" You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. "
Barbara Bush
Think
He
Lord
" 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
Courageous
Person
Feel