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I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.
We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.
The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.
George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.
Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.
The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.
I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.
I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.
Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.
The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.
In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine.
What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.
I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.
George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.
The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.
All I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me.
You can push your local communities to adopt more sustainable sources of energy and environmentally-friendly practices.
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.
We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.
The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.
Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]
It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.
The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.
Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.
My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.
The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.
It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts.
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.
You know there's an old african proverb that i made up: "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics.
The truth about the climate crisis is still inconvenient for the large carbon polluters and the politicians who are in their pockets.