I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

I would kiss Tipper much longer.

We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.

It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.

And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis.

Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.