Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff. And the disrespect for the possession laws fosters a disrespect for laws and the system in general... On top of this is the distinct impression among the youth that some police may use the marihuana laws to arrest people they don't like for other reasons, whether it be their politics, their hair style or their ethnic background.

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.

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

The Congress, the Administration and the public all share a profound commitment to the rescue of our natural environment, and the preservation of the Earth as a place both habitable by and hospitable to man.