Edmund Muskie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
-- Edmund Muskie

#Anger #Political #Littles
You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.
-- Edmund Muskie

#Government #Given #Kicks
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
-- Edmund Muskie

#Mirrors #Media #Amusement
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth.
-- Edmund Muskie

#Dream #Water #Political
Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.
-- Edmund Muskie

#Ocean #Moving #Lakes
Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
-- Edmund Muskie

#Communication #Silence #Speak
We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food.
-- Edmund Muskie

#Cancer #Ocean #Reality
In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
-- Edmund Muskie

#Communication #Silence #Maine
[I want] a one-armed scientist ... [Who would not qualify his advice with 'on the other hand...']
-- Edmund Muskie

#Hands #Advice #Want

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.
Political development should start at the grassroots.
The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.
Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

Edmund Muskie famous quotes

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