Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.

The reality was that Warner wasn't there. If there were two people or 20 people identifying him, they were wrong.

One problem is that we are heavily dependent upon fossil fuels. And that's where the greenhouse gases come from, by and large, some deforestation, as well. But we have not yet come to grips with how to change that. So that's where we are right now.

There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.

Knight without fear and without reproach.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.