It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

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.

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

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.