But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

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.

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

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.