If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

...we must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth need not and will not be deterioration in the quality of our lives and our surroundings.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.

We believe that part of the answer lies in pricing energy on the basis of its full costs to society. One reason we use energy so lavishly today is that the price of energy does not include all of the social costs of producing it. The costs incurred in protecting the environment and the health and safety of workers, for example, are part of the real costs of producing energy-but they are not now all included in the price of the product.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.