People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

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.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.