Laura Bush

Laura Bush
Laura Lane Welch Bushis the wife of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush, and was the First Lady from 2001 to 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFirst Lady
Date of Birth4 November 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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There is nothing political about American literature.
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Diseases don't respect borders. You know, just at the edge of the American border, that isn't the edge of diseases. We need to be sure that we're looking worldwide. And it is in our security interest, as well as our moral interest, to pay attention to the rest of the world.
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I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.
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Education is the key. With a really good education, you have a much broader view of the world. Well-educated people can seek help for themselves. They can help others.
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There are gender health differences, and we need to know what they are.
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I see that one part of the education of women is health education. We know that women who are educated have much healthier families....
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There's a very close tie between good health and good education.
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certainly the women's health part is something that I've become very interested in. It's not something I thought about when George [Bush] was elected...what I'd always been interested in was education.
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You know George doesn't like to think of his childhood home as historic yet.
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You know, they probably are altered, and they probably are forgeries, and I think that's terrible, really. That's actually one of the risks you take when you run for public office or when you're in the public eye.
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will do every single thing he can in his power to protect the American people.
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We have overcome the institutionalized bigotry that Dr. King fought, ... Now our challenge is to make sure that every child has a fair chance to succeed in life.
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We've been living in an age of self-absorption and self-indulgence. But the amazing thing is that on one day it all stopped. We started to rethink things. We began to think not about what is wrong, but about what is right, about our towns and our states and our country,
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We've been living in an age of self-absorption .... But the amazing thing is that on one day it all stopped.