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.

I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.

Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed.

When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

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