Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.

Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in the way you take money away as in the way you disburse it.

I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

Hello winter! My heart is warm and ready to enjoy your cool loving touch of beauty and splendor.

Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.

I faced the "dead lion" courageously but will definitely run if I meet a roaring one...

People talk about ‘service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned.

We are more united than ever before. I think this was exemplified in a very moving way when the members of our Congress stood shoulder to shoulder the other day and sang God Bless America.

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

I don't do special effects. I do characters. I do creatures.