I started out as a Democrat.

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

If the ending is not happy, the story is not finished.

I think it's important to keep things positive. Sometimes you don't win, and that sucks, and you work on improving.

AWWW ON THE MAIL. The mail man delivers, once again!

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.

Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.

Try your hand at everything. Figure out what your space in the world is and take it. Then you can let other people in who will celebrate that about you, not try to turn you into something else.

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.