19 Quotes by Lynne Cheney

Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.

Dogs don’t bark at parked cars.

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

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

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.

Madison was also developing another idea: that the absence of clashing ideas and competing interests leads to overreaching and corruption.

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.

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.