George W. Bush Quotes About Parents

• The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Love You, Unconditional Love

• We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

  George W. Bush

  Mistake, Book, Home

• The future success of our Nation depends on our children's ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices. To help them reach their full potential and live with integrity and pride, we must teach our children to be kind, responsible, honest, and self-disciplined. These important values are first learned in the family, but all of our citizens have an obligation to support parents in the character education of our children

  George W. Bush

  Children, Integrity, Character

• Religion is a personal, private matter and parents, not public school officials, should decide their children's religious training. We should not have teacher-led prayers in public schools, and school officials should never favor one religion over another, or favor religion over no religion (or vice versa). I also believe that schools should not restrict students' religious liberties. The free exercise of faith is the fundamental right of every American, and that right doesn't stop at the schoolhouse door.

  George W. Bush

  Teacher, Religious, Prayer

• You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Humor, Kids

  "President Bush Addresses Taxes, Social Security in Independence, Missouri". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. August 21, 2001.

• I hope I'm as graceful and gracious as [my parents] are. It's hard for me to project how I'm gonna be if I make it to 86.

  George W. Bush

  Parent, Projects, Gracious

  Source: www.aarp.org

• If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that experience.

  George W. Bush

  Texas, Long, People

• In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love.

  George W. Bush

  Unconditional Love, Parent, Challenges

  Source: www.aarp.org

• When a child is in crisis, parents should have a role and a voice. They should be the first to help, not the last to know.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Should Have, Voice

• I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Parent, President

  Source: www.aarp.org

• Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

  George W. Bush

  Two, Abortion, Parent

  George W. Bush (2010). “Decision Points”, p.113, Random House

• I'm not that worried about [my parents] right now because they are happy people. I'm pleased that in their later years, in spite of physical ailments, they're upbeat.

  George W. Bush

  Years, People, Parent

  Source: www.aarp.org

• It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Humor, Names

  "President Bush Outlines Educational Initiatives". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2001.

• I teamed up with the PGA of America to help promote a weekend of golf that raises scholarship money for kids who lost a parent or whose parent was severely wounded in combat.

  George W. Bush

  Kids, Golf, Weekend

  Source: www.aarp.org

• I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be - a more literate country and a hopefuller country.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Children, Believe

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