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

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.

...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.

When I have opportunity to walk, I never miss it.

If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.

Careful had never really been her style.

Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it.

wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.

Do not worry, and worry.

Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.