It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.