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

- Edmund Muskie

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

- Edmund Muskie

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, riv…

- Edmund Muskie

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 u…

- Edmund Muskie

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

- Edmund Muskie

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

- Edmund Muskie

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 l…

- Edmund Muskie

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 rig…

- Edmund Muskie

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

- Edmund Muskie