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Idleness is an appendix to nobility. ↗

— Robert Burton

#idleness #nobility

I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#done #ever #first #i #interested

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

— Barbara Bush

#all-powerful #guidance #lord #lot #may

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#possibility #beauty

I'm a little old-fashioned. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#little #old-fashioned

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#cross #dinner #formula #get #interesting

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#broccoli #eat #going #haven #i

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#finances #frustrated #i #i think #inability

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#gentlemen #idealism #noble #over #political

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign. ↗

— George W. Bush

#come #cynicism #join #politics #polls