The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting.

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

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.

The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose. . . Man does not live by bread alone. Those in the United States whose desire to create a strictly secular society is as strong as Lenin's was should study this Cold War lesson closely. Communism was defeated by an alliance spearheaded by 'one nation under God.'