I think politicians sometimes badly underestimate the true feelings that Americans have for the land.

I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and you visit the area and present the case to the local people, they threaten to hang you. You go back in five years and they think it's the greatest thing that ever happened.

Let's turn inflation over to the Post Office. That'll slow it down.

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Good politics are often inextricably intertwined.