Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.

I think it is important that religious leaders of all kinds consciously attempt to distinguish between issues of natural law on which there is consensus among Catholic, Protestant, and Jew and those issues on which there must be a greater degree of tolerance of other peoples' opinions and of the diversity that is characteristic of American society.

I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

If the bishops are saying that it is divine revelation that seven percent of unemployment is morally unacceptable and that that is a teaching which must as a matter of faith be accepted by all Catholics, I respectfully dissent.