Laura Bush Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• What I want for children in our country and around the world is safe, stable and loving homes.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Children, Home

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: 'Education Is The Key'". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

• I think disease and all the things that we treat are tied to national security in a lot of ways that we maybe don't realize or that the American people don't realize. If other countries have a chance to be stable, then that helps us. If there are ways we can prevent if there are ways we can help other countries defeat diseases, we're about to totally eradicate polio. And can you imagine? That would be so terrific.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Helping Others, Thinking

  "Laura Bush, Melinda Gates, CARE President on Women’s Issues, U.S. Foreign Aid". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

• Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.

  Laura Bush

  Country, War, Men

• If you take the burden of health care, of diseases off the backs of some other countries, it gives them a chance to use their own very limited resources in ways that help their people. And also there's a hopelessness associated with deadly diseases, that if that can be alleviated, people can build their own economies in their own countries and they'll be less reliant on the developed world for help.

  Laura Bush

  Country, People, Giving

• AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Fighting, Men

  Mrs. Bush's Remarks at United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 02, 2006.

• All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.

  Laura Bush

  Girl, Wise, Country

  Mrs. Bush's Remarks at United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 02, 2006.

• I have always admired organizations that help children grow and learn, and organizations that protect and shelter children when no one else does. And I wanted to draw attention to these organizations and recognize the contributions they were making to the country and to our children in particular.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Children, Organization

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

• In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to the village. Or they are doing chores, preparing meals, farming. Some cultures think girls and women shouldn't be educated, and those are very often the places where the treatment of women and girls is the worst.

  Laura Bush

  Girl, Country, Home

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

• For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Men, Rights

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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