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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Through prayer, we look for ways to understand the arbitrary harm left by this storm and the mystery of undeserved suffering, ... And in our search, we are reminded that God's purposes are sometimes impossible to know here on earth. Yet ever as we are humbled by forces we cannot explain, we take comfort in the knowledge that no one is ever stranded beyond God's care.
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Through this tragedy, great duties have come to our nation. The destruction of this hurricane was beyond any human power to control, but the restoration of broken communities and disrupted lives now rests in our hands.
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I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
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We must have high expectations for children who are more difficult to teach or who have fallen behind, ... Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would accept no less than an equal concern for every child in America, and neither will my administration.
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We got to maintain economic growth, and therefore we should not raise taxes, ... and we don't need to be taking more money out of their pocket.
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Tomorrow is going to be a hard day for a lot of Americans, ... It's going to be a day of tears and a day of prayer and a day of national resolve. It also needs to be a day in which we confirm the values which make us unique and great.
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We're going to get him and it's just a matter of when,
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The people have given us the duty to fend them and that duty sometimes requires the violent restraint of violent men, ... In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.
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We're going to have the first one, and then we'll see how it goes. We started the Texas Book Festival six years ago in Austin, and it's become institutionalized as an annual event at the Texas capitol. So I expect this will be very successful here.
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The protests were very expected. If you didn't expect them, you didn't know what it would be like when you got here,
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This was a good opportunity for Walter to pursue other opportunities.
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I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.
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We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.
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Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.