I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.

I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.

Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It's been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving's better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam's Club.

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

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.