I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.

We believe that part of the answer lies in pricing energy on the basis of its full costs to society. One reason we use energy so lavishly today is that the price of energy does not include all of the social costs of producing it. The costs incurred in protecting the environment and the health and safety of workers, for example, are part of the real costs of producing energy-but they are not now all included in the price of the product.

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

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Being trustworthy is something you are, something you stand for and a core value you live by. It isn't something you can train for nor is it something you can manipulate. You either have those values or you don't.

Failure isn't falling down. Failure is not getting up after you have fallen down.