Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

I started out as a Democrat.

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains.

Reality does not go away when it is ignored.

We are still living in the deep darkness of conformity.

Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!Do they ever achieve anything or do they just let a lot of hot air out of an already over inflated balloon?

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.

I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.