One of the strengths of this country has been our diversity. One of the strengths of this country has been the fact that we are a nation of immigrants.

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

Americans are finally realizing that once you lose land, you can't get it back.

Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breath and their water is safe to drink.

I am struck by how many leading women... today started as Girl Scouts. It is an organization that obviously develops strong women leaders.

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

The question to always be in your inner dialogue, asking yourself...is it kind?

...ethics were in most cases a burden that could be reasonably ignored in pursuit of necessity.

You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.

The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.