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" You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way. "
Barbara Bush
Hard
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" Somewhere out 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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" The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions. "
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" Raising five boys is a handful, trust me. "
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" You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities. "
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" I don't like attacking. "
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" The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream. "
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" You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong. "
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" I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time. "
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" I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else. "
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" I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country. "
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" Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships. "
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" My health is very good. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that. "
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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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" If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it. "
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" My worst expectations never happened. "
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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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" Value your friendship. Value your relationships. "
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" I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren. "
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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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" Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics. "
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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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" When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. "
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" I'm a little old-fashioned. "
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" I'm tired now of the elections. "
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" Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted. "
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