Nature did not make me willowy.

A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

Urges. Mercy, the urges.

I’ll give you one chance to run, but may your shoulder always whisper in your ear…“It’s best to watch out for men, like me.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.

I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.

My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.

The truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.