Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.

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

We can't tell China what to do if we don't do it ourselves. You don't inspire someone to take an action by refusing to take it yourself. We are in a race to be the dominant clean-energy provider to the world. Maybe this goes without saying: We've got to get China into an international protocol and the magic words are "common responsibility with differentiated action."

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