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.

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.

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.

Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.

Smiles are such a simple thing to give but means so much to many.

All work is service. If you aren't serving in your work, you really aren't working.

I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

It is what you think of this situation that governs you and not the situation itself. Causation is always in mind and not in things.

Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.

God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.