Our mines are among the safest in the country, so we are not operating from the perspective of having to do something precipitous.

Science is really important for the long-term future of the country, I think it's important for the economy and I think it's important for developing the capacities of people, whatever they're going to do.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!