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.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a New World Order.

They say, "Gee, you look great." That means they thought you looked like hell before.

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.