What the hell did we do to deserve this?

I became a villain for doing the right thing.

The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

I'd like my life back.

I don't feel my job is on the line, but of course that might change.

We need the world to put a price on carbon.

Satisfying ever-growing energy demand in a sustainable way has become the world's biggest challenge.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

If you let go completely you will have complete peace.

I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image.

Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!

It's a blue-collar city [Manchester] that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.

When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.

For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

I have been very, very consistent. But at the same time I kept kind of hitting my head on the ceiling and I couldn't break through.

If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China.