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.

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

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.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

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

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

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

We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

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

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.

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.

I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

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.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

White House leaks of classified information put the lives of U.S. service members, intelligence officers, and civilians at risk. That's why I support a measure passed by the Senate Intelligence Committee to crack down on such leaks.

You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.

We're going to get the Internet we deserve, and those people who are the most active in shaping the Internet to their liking are going to win out.

Take all the time you need to heal emotionally. Moving on doesn't take a day, it takes lots of little steps to be able to break free of your broken self.

We want the people of Japan to know that the people of Hawaii welcome them to the Hawaiian Islands.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Every good day starts off with a cappuccino, and there's no place better to enjoy some frothy caffeine than at the Bulgari Hotel.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

I like Kit-Kat, unless I'm with four or more people.

Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.

The way to achieve your goals is step by step, you just need to build enough track, to be ahead of the train.

The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

Republicans, say Democrats, are too simplistic about what ails America, and their solutions are straight out of 'J.A.G.'

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself.