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.

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.

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.

if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou, then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you, do something else.

It’s better to be a “misfit” than a “one-size-fits-all”!

Every body should be given the chance and the necessary support to unearth their full potential.

He was supposed to be the first man to tell her that she was beautiful and help her determine who she was before anyone had the opportunity to label her. She was supposed to be his “little girl”.

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.

I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.

If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.

It's not a model if it's full-scale, Tomkinson, it's an icebreaker.

We see death constantly on film.