Quotes By Barbara Bush

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

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

I've done it all.

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.

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

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

Raising George Walker was not easy.

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

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

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

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

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.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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