The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

Success comes to us when we have a burning desire to achieve and we focus our full power on achieving that.

Who lives inside your head? The hero of your story OR The victim of someone else's?

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

Very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

You are one of the forces of nature.

I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.

I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.

I just don't think America wants a female host. It's like men don't walk around in skirts in this country. Why change a good thing?