The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response

My most beautiful and best days are ahead of me but behind me.

Donald Trump is now said that he wants to have a plan that's more harmonized with what House Republicans under speaker Paul Ryan have proposed.

Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.

If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him.

The course of Nature is the art of God

People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

It's my job as governor to set a vision.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears