You must never give up. You must remember that you have to take risks in order to achieve anything and sometimes you will suffer defeat. But the mark of any individual is to recover from defeat and disappointment and go on and give it his best shot.

Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.

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.