I've always backed energy independence policies, but I've heard from people on this issue like no other. The energy interests of Illinois are far broader and deeper than my North Shore district.

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist.

A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.

German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.

Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!.

Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

You want to know the secret of my success? Let me tell you about eugenics.