The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will not be cheap or easy and the costs will have to be borne by each citizen, consumer and taxpayer. How clean is clean enough can only be answered in terms of how much we are willing to pay and how soon we seek success... It is simplistic to seek ecological perfection at the cost of bankrupting the very tax-paying enterprises which must pay for the social advances we seek.

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.