I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.

Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn't be limited to the wealthiest few.

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I lost three times before I got elected. There's no limit. Stay in pursuit of your dreams.

Get yourself prepared, educationally and emotionally, and develop mental toughness. Don't ever give up.

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

You always apologize for things you don't know. You should stop.

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

Thinking for yourself - that's scarier than any devil image.

It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological.

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.