We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.

Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.

Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.