Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

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

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

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 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.

The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.