Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.

We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.

Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.