Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

I started out as a Democrat.

My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

It is human nature for self-doubt to occasionally creep in and take up residence. It happens to even the most successful people among us.

If you believe...you will!

Isn't it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?

I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.

Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player

When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come.

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.

Play with me and you play with fire.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.