A biography for Barbara Bushhasn’t been written yet.
“מדוע אנו צריכים לשמוע על שקי גופות? זה לא רלוונטי. מדוע אני צריכה לבזבז את תאי המוח היפה שלי על דברים כאלה?”
“אם הם יצטטו אותך, תהיה בטוח שהם שמעו אותך.”
“אני לא יכולה להגיד את זה אבל זה מתחרז עם ריץ' (עשיר).”
“I've done it all.”
“I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.”
“I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.”
“I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.”
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
“Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.”
“I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.”
“People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.”
“I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.”
“I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.”
“You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.”
“I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.”
“You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.”
“Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.”
“I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.”
“Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.”
“Somewhere out 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!”