“The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions…. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.”

— Barbara Bush

On the abortion debate, in which her stance was the opposite of her husband's, as quoted in TIME magazine (24 August 1992)

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