If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

Even if America tomorrow - and it won't happen overnight - but if we did reduce our demand for gas and natural gas and crude oil by a significant degree, that does have an exponential effect on producers in the Middle East, everything else being equal. But if China's demand is growing and India's demand is growing, they are not going back.

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

Syria is on the back end of basically a decade-long drought. Over the last decade, farmers and herders have been ravaged in Syria forcing them to give up and move to urban areas. This has put a huge strain on urban resources, and it's surely one of the reasons for the uprising there.

There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.