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.

It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.

The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable agent, it is in our hands. A future which brings the balancing of our resources-preserving quality with quantity - is a future limited only by the boundaries of our will to get the job done.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.