Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the environmental issue to be used sometimes falsely and sometimes in a demagogic way basically to destroy the system-the industrial system that made this the great country it is.

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth