Quote by Barbara Bush
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and youre not going to change each others minds. Its a waste of your time and my time. – Barbara Bush

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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money. – Barbara Bush

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Government
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Im not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they dont think Im competitive, just nice. – Barbara Bush

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Women
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. – Barbara Bush

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Politics
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Geoengineering – the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earths climate to offset global warming – is a nightmare fix for climate change. – Jeff Goodell

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The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. – Jawaharlal Nehru

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Change

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change. – Robert Mugabe

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When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am. – Andrew Shue

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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. – Woodrow Wilson

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No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. – Phillips Brooks

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Goodness

Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. – Leon Trotsky

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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Hypocrisy