We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.

Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none - not one regime - has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive.

The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.

I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.