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

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.

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.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.