Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

Do you still believe it impossible we exist? You didn't actually think you were the only inhabited planet in the universe. How can any race be so stupid?

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

I can sometimes be a demanding person and Cristiano is really patient dealing with my personality. So I also try my hardest to offer him all my support when he needs it.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.

There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.