Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Edmund Muskie

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, a United States Senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 64th Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, and a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1946 to 1951. He was the Democratic Party's candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1968 presidential election, alongside Hubert Humphrey.

American - Politician | March 28, 1914 - March 26, 1996

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

Edmund Muskie

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

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 right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth.

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 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

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

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Edmund Muskie

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