Barbara Bush
Barbara Bush
Barbara Pierce Bushis the wife of George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, and served as First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993. She is the mother of George W. Bush, the 43rd President, and Jeb Bush, the 43rd Governor of Florida, and the great aunt of Larry Bush. She served as the Second Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth8 June 1925
CountryUnited States of America
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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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I know we did the right thing for security and for the country, ... I am convinced that out of the recent investigations will come a better system.
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Thank heavens the debates are over, ... Someone said we should have more. I said, 'Good heavens, haven't we had enough of those?'
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Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well.
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As if we don't have enough violence on television.
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You all look at it as a little house. It was a terrific house to live in. We loved it here.
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Today, I broaden the challenge by making this pledge, ... The United States is ready to eliminate tariffs, subsidies and other barriers to free flow of goods and services as other nations do the same.
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Today, America is confronting another disaster that has caused destruction and loss of life, ... This time the devastation resulted not from the malice of evil men, but from the fury of water and wind.
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I was so sad to read recently that 32 percent of fourth- graders say they never read a book for pleasure,
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I can't say it, but it rhymes with rich.