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I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
BARBARA BUSH

I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.
BARBARA BUSH

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
BARBARA BUSH

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own...
BARBARA BUSH

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

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building f...
BARBARA BUSH

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained ...
BARBARA BUSH

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
BARBARA BUSH

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my f...
BARBARA BUSH

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool...
BARBARA BUSH

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
BARBARA BUSH

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by ste...
BARBARA BUSH

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

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of...
BARBARA BUSH

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more...
BARBARA BUSH

Study hard, work hard and play hard, too,
BARBARA BUSH

And if they [the United States Senate] start going on a vendetta against Roberts in the Senate, it's...
BARBARA BUSH

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life...
BARBARA BUSH

I think the Gore campaign has made an enormous issue of the fact that George is not smart, ... Did A...
BARBARA BUSH

Today, America is confronting another disaster that has caused destruction and loss of life, ... Thi...
BARBARA BUSH

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whe...
BARBARA BUSH

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, wheth...
BARBARA BUSH

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no...
BARBARA BUSH

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
BARBARA BUSH

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat...
BARBARA BUSH

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
BARBARA BUSH

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, w...
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

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
BARBARA BUSH

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord...
BARBARA BUSH

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're wor...
BARBARA BUSH

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
BARBARA BUSH

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat...
BARBARA BUSH

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds...
BARBARA BUSH

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
BARBARA BUSH

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
BARBARA BUSH

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and pres...
BARBARA BUSH

I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.
BARBARA BUSH

War is not nice.
BARBARA BUSH

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.
BARBARA BUSH

You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, wheth...
BARBARA BUSH

We all make our contributions to the world and I suppose mine will not be to the literary treasures ...
BARBARA BUSH

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
BARBARA BUSH

It's been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving's better than my c...
BARBARA BUSH

Believe in something larger than yourself.
BARBARA BUSH

As if we don't have enough violence on television.
BARBARA BUSH

This house is wonderful. We have many very happy memories here.
BARBARA BUSH

I listen and give input only if somebody asks.
BARBARA BUSH

I was so sad to read recently that 32 percent of fourth- graders say they never read a book for plea...
BARBARA BUSH

Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government, ... And to ...
BARBARA BUSH

I cannot say at this time. I'm holding the issue open until I can understand the dynamics involved a...
BARBARA BUSH

Whether it be here or in Washington or anywhere else, there's somebody who has got something to say ...
BARBARA BUSH

Cancer is a disease that touches many lives, and the proceeds from the luncheon will provide an exce...
BARBARA BUSH

Almost everyone I've talked to says we're going to move to Houston,
BARBARA BUSH

This is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSH

It is not enough to remove Mr. Brown from the disaster scene, ... The individual in charge of FEMA m...
BARBARA BUSH

All the brave men and women we recognize today brought credit to the uniform and honor to the United...
BARBARA BUSH

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, ju...
BARBARA BUSH

What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhe...
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...
BARBARA BUSH

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
BARBARA BUSH

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSH

I can't say it, but it rhymes with rich.
BARBARA BUSH

I feel a little like the scarecrow in the 'Wizard of Oz' who suddenly discovers he had a brain all a...
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

Condi, may I go Pee?
BARBARA BUSH

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
BARBARA BUSH

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in t...
BARBARA BUSH

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it...
BARBARA BUSH

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
BARBARA BUSH

In these difficult days, we have again seen the great strength and character and resolve of America,...
BARBARA BUSH

War is not nice...
BARBARA BUSH

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than...
BARBARA BUSH

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside...
BARBARA BUSH

My worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSH

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one w...
BARBARA BUSH

People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
BARBARA BUSH

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSH

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it kee...
BARBARA BUSH

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by ste...
BARBARA BUSH

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
BARBARA BUSH

I'm a little old-fashioned.
BARBARA BUSH

I don't like the blame game, though.
BARBARA BUSH

Let's judge a man on what he's done.
BARBARA BUSH

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
BARBARA BUSH

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
BARBARA BUSH

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
BARBARA BUSH

I don't like attacking.
BARBARA BUSH

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
BARBARA BUSH

I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
BARBARA BUSH

I'm tired now of the elections.
BARBARA BUSH

I'm not a one-issue person.
BARBARA BUSH

You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
BARBARA BUSH

I've done it all.
BARBARA BUSH

Raising George Walker was not easy.
BARBARA BUSH

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
BARBARA BUSH

I'm taking a vow not to advise.
BARBARA BUSH

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSH

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to pub...
BARBARA BUSH

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
BARBARA BUSH

My health is very good.
BARBARA BUSH

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm com...
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 g...
BARBARA BUSH

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for i...
BARBARA BUSH

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.
BARBARA BUSH

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the ...
BARBARA BUSH

I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
BARBARA BUSH

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
BARBARA BUSH

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
BARBARA BUSH

as a president, it goes with territory.
BARBARA BUSH Yesterday's pain, with careful attention, can become tomorrow's wisdom.
BARBARA ANN BUSH When your heart feels as if it is sitting in your stomach, there is less room for food.
BARBARA ANN BUSH

And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based ...
JEB BUSH

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly i...
VANNEVAR BUSH

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
VANNEVAR BUSH

A belief may be larger than a fact.
VANNEVAR BUSH

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of ma...
VANNEVAR BUSH

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and eva...
VANNEVAR BUSH

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.
JEB BUSH In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the countr...
LAURA BUSH I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children ar...
LAURA BUSH I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses...
LAURA BUSH But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for ...
LAURA BUSH If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different t...
LAURA BUSH I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and w...
LAURA BUSH Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in ...
LAURA BUSH I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
LAURA BUSH When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have register...
LAURA BUSH I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.
LAURA BUSH But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good r...
LAURA BUSH You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opp...
LAURA BUSH I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point o...
LAURA BUSH I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one li...
LAURA BUSH Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, ...
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 ...
LAURA BUSH Politics is a people business. I like people.
LAURA BUSH They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with....
LAURA BUSH Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
LAURA BUSH We can overcome evil with greater good.
LAURA BUSH Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whate...
LAURA BUSH We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me,...
LAURA BUSH A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fasci...
LAURA BUSH The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we hav...
LAURA BUSH Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
LAURA BUSH We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, my...
KATE BUSH I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space...
KATE BUSH I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.
KATE BUSH I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
KATE BUSH Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'U...
KATE BUSH I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestr...
KATE BUSH I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never b...
KATE BUSH What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in...
KATE BUSH I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.
KATE BUSH I think it's important that things are flawed.
KATE BUSH Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
KATE BUSH School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to co...
KATE BUSH I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating t...
KATE BUSH My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.
KATE BUSH I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I th...
KATE BUSH I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because the...
KATE BUSH That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in r...
KATE BUSH I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet.
KATE BUSH It's not important to me that people understand me.
KATE BUSH But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Cha...
KATE BUSH Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out ...
KATE BUSH It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are milli...
KATE BUSH I think quotes are very dangerous things.
KATE BUSH If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always ...
KATE BUSH

I have pretty thick eyebrows, so I'm really grateful to Brooke Shields, the first time around, a...
SOPHIA BUSH Bottom line, it's a status issue. They want people to look at their wheels.
ALAN BUSH In almost every survey of consumers, they say they don't mind spending money. What they hate is the ...
ALAN BUSH Home prices in Colorado are still expensive. You have a lot of people getting back on their feet and...
ALAN BUSH It took longer then we originally anticipated for some of our partners to get the hardware out the d...
ALAN BUSH There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising int...
KATE BUSH Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.
BILLY BUSH

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them
GEORGE BUSH

If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
GEORGE BUSH

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes an...
JEB BUSH You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
EARL BUSH

I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, cha...
JEB BUSH

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity...
GEORGE BUSH

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.
GEORGE BUSH

We cannot meet it the threat of dictatorship if we turn this country into a wishy-washy imitation of...
VANNEVAR BUSH

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it...
GEORGE BUSH

Read my lips: no new taxes.
GEORGE BUSH

If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
GEORGE BUSH

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
GEORGE BUSH

We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much.
GEORGE BUSH

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity.....
GEORGE BUSH

Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.
GEORGE BUSH

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
GEORGE BUSH

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning...
VANNEVAR BUSH

No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as pa...
GEORGE BUSH

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

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