Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Unfortunately, the worst part of a product/service is the seller.

I do think everything that happens in American pop culture sort of prescribes for England and does end up happening there six months later, maybe a year.

We think our PS3 game is better than their Xbox game.

There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.

Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races.