If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today.

When Arnold Schwarzenegger goes to his reward - how's that? That's a crack, but I treat Governor Schwarzenegger well in my book. He's done such great work in California; we'll forgive him one personal habit. Everybody should have one not-totally-CO2-friendly habit they can be forgiven for. So we'll forgive him that one.

There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and act now. Our addiction to Middle Eastern oil obviously has security implications, and we think it's about time to be generating Eastern Washington wind energy instead of sending our money to the sheikhs.

We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.

Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those who pollute the atmosphere. So we have to stop that externality. We would never allow a utility to put their coal slag in a dump truck and back it up to the city park and dump it in unlimited amounts for free. But that is exactly what we do with carbon dioxide and methane.