America will not tolerate being pushed around by anybody, anyplace.

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed.

We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will not be cheap or easy and the costs will have to be borne by each citizen, consumer and taxpayer. How clean is clean enough can only be answered in terms of how much we are willing to pay and how soon we seek success... It is simplistic to seek ecological perfection at the cost of bankrupting the very tax-paying enterprises which must pay for the social advances we seek.

My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!

You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.