Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.

Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

I had a detailed plan for my life, but it turned out life had a completely different plan for me. And I feel joy that I have work that feels like it justifies pouring everything I have into it. I never have fallen prey to the illusion that there's any job with as much ability to influence the future as that of President of the United States, but I do feel grateful that I found other ways to do work that serves the public interest.

Remember America, I gave you the Internet and I can take it away.

The United States is the only nation that can lead the world toward a solution on climate change.

If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.