Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist.

I've always backed energy independence policies, but I've heard from people on this issue like no other. The energy interests of Illinois are far broader and deeper than my North Shore district.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?

It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.