Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.
As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
My worst expectations never happened.
You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
I think the country has had enough Bushes.
Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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.
Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
I don’t like attacking.
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
I’m tired now of the elections.
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.