Barbara Bush
Barbara Bush
Barbara Pierce Bushis the wife of George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, and served as First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993. She is the mother of George W. Bush, the 43rd President, and Jeb Bush, the 43rd Governor of Florida, and the great aunt of Larry Bush. She served as the Second Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth8 June 1925
CountryUnited States of America
writing discipline shapes
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.'
clean
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
thinking wife president
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
listening done ifs
You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.
wife advice care
Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.
good-luck people judgement
Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
attacking
I don't like attacking.
government cost controversial
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
mean gun bullets
I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
running office courageous
I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
powerful thinking political
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
inspirational women white
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!
book white house
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.
volunteer ark built
The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.