Worldwide, our oceans are warming, rising, and becoming dangerously acidic as a result of carbon pollution and climate change - endangering much that we hold dear.

I am the exception to the rule that all senators see themselves in the Oval Office.

We must now become not just takers from the ocean, but caretakers of it.

Donald Trump disproved the notion that there is a direct dollar-for-dollar correlation between how much money you had in your traditional war chest and what your election outcome was going to be.

The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.

The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.

I don't think you earn the right to a message until you've earned it by having a real fight, really being willing to stand up for what you believe in.

The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.

Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Talent means energy and persistence and nothing more!

Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.

I haven’t had everything from life. I’ve had too much.

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.

You gotta call a blacksmith.