In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.

The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature. Unless we arrest the depredations that have been inflicted so carelessly on our natural systems-which exist in an intricate set of balances-we face the prospect of ecological disaster.

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God.

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.