The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of bureaucratic momentum.

We're running out of time.

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.

The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

America is not at war with Islam. And it is a mistake and it plays into the hands of the terrorists to act as though we are.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.

Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise.

Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?

It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.

I do think we all go through struggles in life. I do think we're all going to fall down, along the way.