My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.

I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.