In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial

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.

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

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.

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

I've been fighting my whole life.

President Lorenzo Snow declared that it is "the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint . . . to have the manifestations of the spirit every day of our lives."

Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.