If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been a balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitors that the danger of war arises.

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.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.