Quotes By Barbara Bush

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

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

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!

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

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.

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

I'm not a one-issue person.

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

I've done it all.

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

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

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

My worst expectations never happened.

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.

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.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

Raising George Walker was not easy.

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

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

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

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

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.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

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

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

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

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

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

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