It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.

Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in the way you take money away as in the way you disburse it.

I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

If you want to succeed, make it a study first then practice it and finally live it daily.

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

When in times of turmoil and breakup, do not cut or shave your head, because it will never end well.

If you love something, give it away...

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. So "articulate." And I guess it was. The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well.

I love you and I'm here for you.