Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.

Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we can't afford to lose, and that's what keeps me moving forward.

Climate change has the potential to affect everything we care about - whether it is the health of our families, the stability of our communities, or the fate of the wild animals.

I think every single American believes they have a right to clean air and clean water.

Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all of us.

House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.

At least 3,527 U.S. monthly records for heat, rain, and snow were broken in 2012. We can't let this continue unchecked, and we don't have to.

Americans have made it clear we want to build a more sustainable future. I am excited to harness that energy and see what we can create together.

The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.

Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.

Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.

The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.

If the Angels won, the entire Earth would be nothing but one giant Christmas frickin' morning, a choking wave of happiness and warmth and caring and sharing taking over everything.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.

Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end.