A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

Having four kids of my own, fifth one on the way... I think with "Junior," what's happened over the last three years is this program's been implemented across schools.

To me, pain means you're pushing your body to give you everything its got.

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.

My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the songs when I was a kid.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Next thing you know, we're like the computer people for the movie industry in the Twin Cities