Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

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.

Success is not only a goal. It is a journey. When you commit yourself to the journey, the goal is surely there to be attained.

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option.

Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.