When discussing overall impacts on employment, it is important not to overlook the new technologies and industries that can be driven by pollution control standards.

Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.

The climate change is real today, but also the solutions that we have available to us that are cost-effective and beneficial to everyone are at our disposal now.

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future.

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won't resent the fact that I want them to work hard, as well.

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.

States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

I think of drug dealers like I think of my father— never really there when you want them to be.

Dream high and exceed your expectations.

Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.

Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

[Angels] aid us in our personal mission. We have to learn to listen, for if we block the angels out, they become only the fairy beings of dreams and pleasant stories.

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!