I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

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.

You must want a thing enough to chase for it.

Give thanks to the earth for the hospitality and generosityShow gratitude for life, light and every little beauty.

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.

There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems apart from all other creatures. How to Know God.

All you have to do is follow the money and if you follow the money, it leads right back to Donald Trump's pockets.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

Historical tends to be my bailiwick.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.