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

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

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

I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.