Barr says parents taught him ‘not to care what other people think’ growing up, calls faith ‘indispensable’

Former Attorney General Bill Barr told Fox News that one of the most important lessons his parents taught him growing up was “not to care what other people think” and to “figure out what is right and stick to our guns,” while saying faith is “indispensable,” and a key part of his upbringing. 

While Barr’s new memoir, “One Damn Thing After Another,” reflects on his government career and national security challenges facing the United States in the present and future, it also highlights his upbringing.

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“The most important thing to me growing up was, my parents, from the very beginning, always told us not to care what other people thought,” Barr said. “They didn’t want to hear about what other people were doing. They said we should figure out what is right and stick to our guns and not care what other people think.”

Barr grew up in New York City to a Catholic mother who worked as an editor for a variety of women’s magazines and a Jewish father who converted to Catholicism later in life and taught English at Columbia University, Pace College and City College of New York.

Barr was raised Catholic and attended a Catholic elementary school. He described the school as “ethnically diverse, drawing heavily from neighborhoods bordering on West Harlem.”

“The students were mainly Hispanic and working- and middle-class Irish American,” Barr writes, noting that “not many Columbia faculty” sent their children to the school.

Attorney General William Barr speaks about the release of a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report during a news conference April 18, 2019, at the Department of Justice in Washington.
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