Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.

The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.

When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

I think it's [concern about global warming] mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves.

According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease.

...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.

In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.

The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

The planet's environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

NBC's The West Wing is an icon for bad stories; Gitmo is a place where we keep an eye on evil, dangerous people who want to kill us.

I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.

But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on.

I want to get the American people to start sitting at a table together and talking to each other, holding court, and enjoying a meal - and it doesn't have an expense.

I have thick skin. I'm not a baby. Nothing really offends me. If there's something I think might offend me, I don't listen to it.

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

We are one another’s angels.