We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

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

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.