As governor I have seen the tremendous changes over the last few years; the amount of land that we have lost, the trees that we have lost, the homes that we have lost, lives that have been lost, and it is due to a large extent to global warming.

Milk are for babies, when you get older you drink beer.

Some information I just keep to myself.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God, this is really, has hit us.' It creeps up on you. ... Half a degree temperature difference from one year to the next, a little bit of rise of the ocean, a little bit of melting of the glaciers, and then all of a sudden it is too late to do something about it.

Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.