Edmund Muskie Quotes

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  • Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

  • Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

  • [I want] a one-armed scientist ... [Who would not qualify his advice with 'on the other hand...']

    Hands   Advice   Want  
  • 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.

    Cancer   Ocean   Reality  
  • You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

    Speech in South Bend, Indiana, September 11, 1968, as reported by the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal. p. A3, September 12, 1968.
  • 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.

  • In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

  • 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.

    Ocean   Moving   Lakes  
  • 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.

    Dream   Rivers   Water  
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Edmund Muskie

  • Born: March 28, 1914
  • Died: March 26, 1996
  • Occupation: Former Governor of Maine