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.

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

The average American is just like the child in the family.

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.