States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.

Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.

The climate change is real today, but also the solutions that we have available to us that are cost-effective and beneficial to everyone are at our disposal now.

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future.

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won't resent the fact that I want them to work hard, as well.

When discussing overall impacts on employment, it is important not to overlook the new technologies and industries that can be driven by pollution control standards.

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

Growth is grace.

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

Every day that goes by and we don't win a ballgame, that's a missed opportunity for us to battle back.

Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, i don't see a lot of room for change in American policy.

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

We just don't give in. If you can bend and not break, you always got a chance.

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

Entry is not equivalent to possession.

A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world