If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today.

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.

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.

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

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

It hurts when you lose a friend to death, it hurts even more when you lose a friend still living.

... the silenceHolds with its gloved handThe wild hawk of the mind.

The imagination is a wonderful thing

If you don't have God in your life, you are nothing.

I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

It’s not what you believe that counts; it’s what you believe enough to do.

Success is the consequence of first having dreams and then acting upon them.

So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.