Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Many conservatives, I think, see action on climate change as really an attack on a way of life. That`s really a hard pill to swallow, that the whole way that I have created my life is wrong, you`re saying, that I shouldn`t have this house in the suburb, I shouldn`t be driving this car.

The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

I think we`re all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It`s sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.