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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As if we don't have enough violence on television.
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We will complete our mission in Iraq because a free Iraq is in this country's interest, ... A free Iraq in the heart of the Middle East is in the interest of the United States of America.
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The president remains in excellent health and fit for duty,
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We all make our contributions to the world and I suppose mine will not be to the literary treasures of the western civilization, ... But I do hope to contribute in my own way, and one of those ways is to bring closer the day when every child and every American learns to read.
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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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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.'