This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.

The way we guarantee safe drinking water is broken and needs to be fixed.

The sooner the US puts a cap on our dangerous carbon pollution, the sooner we can create a new generation of clean energy jobs here in America.

Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other.

There could be oil coming up until August.

Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak.

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

I look back to a happy childhood.

Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines?

I don't have a television set up [in the mountains], of course, but I find I don't miss it at all, or the newspaper. I've sneaked a radio into by cabin, but I find I turn it on very rarely.

One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.

Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.