Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

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.

There is no cure for madness except the madness as the cure.

Speak after the manner of men.

Now, I know a lot of things in the big man's world are not what they seem: a lot of people are out for themselves, and you can't always trust what someone says.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

You have far more power to heal and be healthy than you ever dreamed possible. Your health is not outside of you. And you don't need to deteriorate with advancing age.

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.

This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.