Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better 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.

Love cares about you. Leadership carries you.

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

Anyone who tries to deny #ClimateChange looks a little bit bonkers.

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.

I think that's coming to an end. And, you know, when we ... we can't beg them [russians] to get along with us. And I think there was some of that going on, which has now ended.

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

There's no such thing as lack of confidence. You either have it or you don't.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.