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November 19th, 2010 Author Types, Authors, First Lady, L No Comments »

Laura Bush

They’re great girls. They’re very funny, they’re very smart, they’re fun to be with. They’re very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they’re very confident girls.
Laura Bush

We can overcome evil with greater good.
Laura Bush

I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.
Laura Bush

It’s not easy to have the job of president. It’s not easy to run for it. And it’s not a job for the feint of heart.
Laura Bush

Jenna’s traveled with me; they’ve both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they’ve been old enough in all of their dad’s campaigns to really be involved in.
Laura Bush

Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.
Laura Bush

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I’ll never run for the Senate in New York.
Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that’s just unbelievable.
Laura Bush

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he’s very perceptive about people, and you know, that’s fine.
Laura Bush

I’m not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband’s point of view.
Laura Bush

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
Laura Bush

Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
Laura Bush

No one likes to be criticized.
Laura Bush

Politics is a people business. I like people.
Laura Bush

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
Laura Bush

If I’m just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I’ll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
Laura Bush

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
Laura Bush

I don’t really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
Laura Bush

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
Laura Bush

Well, we’ve faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we – since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm’s way.
Laura Bush

In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That’s what I’m really fortunate to be able to do.
Laura Bush

But you know, it’s not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it’s not easy for me. I’m sure it’s not easy for her. There’s a lot of scrutiny on families that isn’t always wanted.
Laura Bush

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.
Laura Bush

May 5th, 2010 Author Types, Authors, B, First Lady No Comments »

Barbara Bush

Believe in something larger than yourself… get involved in the big ideas of your time.
Barbara Bush

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
Barbara Bush

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
Barbara Bush

Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.
Barbara Bush

One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
Barbara Bush

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!
Barbara Bush

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

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
Barbara Bush

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
Barbara Bush

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
Barbara Bush

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

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

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Barbara Bush

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Barbara Bush

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.
Barbara Bush

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.
Barbara Bush

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush

You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
Barbara Bush

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.
Barbara Bush

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
Barbara Bush

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Barbara Bush

March 11th, 2010 A, Author Types, Authors, First Lady No Comments »

Abigail Adams

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams

Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
Abigail Adams

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
Abigail Adams

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Abigail Adams

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams