I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.

My mother was my Girl Scout leader, and George's mother was his Cub Scout leader. In fact, that's when some say her hair turned white.

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. If George is good at anything, it's timing.

There's nothing political about American literature.

I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.

I think doctors have really come up to speed and understand that more women than men die of heart disease. [But] all the research on heart disease has really been based on men, and needs to be updated with research on women - even very early-stage research is done using male rats!

We seldom give each other advice-I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage.