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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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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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
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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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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 think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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.