A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

So a Holocaust-denying, virulently anti-Semitic, aspiring genocidist, on the verge of acquiring weapons of the apocalypse, believes that the end is not only near but nearer than the next American presidential election. (Pity the Democrats. They cannot catch a break.) This kind of man would have, to put it gently, less inhibition about starting Armageddon than a normal person.

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.

There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that.

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.