The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.

There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.

You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.

What I’m trying to say is, there’s no perfect life without you. In fact, I no longer dream about a “perfect” life. I only dream about a life with you.

I suppose it does come with a certain responsibility.”“What does?” asked Annie.“The magnificence of my person.”“Gah.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration, it should be elevated through pure form.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil.

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.