...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world.

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

All I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me.

The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

There are people who are genuinely upset in the Tea Party. I understand that. But that movement was funded with seed money from right-wing billionaires, the Koch brothers, and promoted on Fox News, and turned into a stocking horse for the right-wing agenda that a lot of people have been trying to push on the country for a long time.