There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

- Lynne Cheney

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

- Lynne Cheney

Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.

- Lynne Cheney

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

- Lynne Cheney

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

- Lynne Cheney

You know, my mother had a rule which was 'people are just people.'

- Lynne Cheney