We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the environmental issue to be used sometimes falsely and sometimes in a demagogic way basically to destroy the system-the industrial system that made this the great country it is.

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

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.

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

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.