There would have been more 'I love you's' and more, 'I'm sorry's'.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

It is fast approaching the point where I don't want tAdenauer to want the job.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.