A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.

I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.