The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

When it comes to love, everyone is a liar.

It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

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

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

But such was the way with people – they loved the things that made them miserable.

The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.

You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas.

It's possible to avoid a war. It's impossible to stop it.

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.