Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

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.

I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again.