The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say "old."

Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.

Enjoy the now. Time flies, enjoy it while you can.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

Cleavage is great," she said. "Like an extra pocket.

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.

In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.