Barbara Bush Quotes - Page 3

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

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It's been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving's better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam's Club.

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.'

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

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

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

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

I think the country has had enough Bushes.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

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

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

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

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

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

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

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.

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.

There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

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