E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the United States and can pose serious environmental and health problems here and around the world when not handled properly.

You have to have patience to be a legislator.

Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.

I work closely with Hispanic leadership.

Allowing for endless legal challenges or partisan political discussions is not the proper way to handle an issue that affects the entire scope of the environment and the economy.

The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.

If there is something you think you can do well, perfect the action.

We made mistakes trying to correct mistakes. Isn't that how we knew we were parents?

Buildings should be good neighbours.

My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.

But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.

If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.