I have supported nominees for cabinet-level positions in the Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II administrations with people who I have tremendous disagreements with on substantive matters, and I've always supported them.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

Military solution in Iraq has been disproven and discredited.

When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.

The world changed on September 11, 2001.