We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

Fixed stars govern a life

Love is a power which produces love.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye.

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

The one aspect I do love about digital is I love to push performance and I love to roll and roll and keep doing takes in a single performance.

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

Many people think they could do much better if they only had the opportunity that they don’t realize they already have.