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Healing is a moral thing to do.
My progressive record is unmatched.
I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.
I really love being governor. I've been extremely successful.
Freedom of expression, innovation, and choice drive our economy.
If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.
I've dedicated my life in public service to defeating climate change.
It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.
Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.
ISIS is a terrorist organization. It is a terrorist organization that the world must unite against.
Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.
Our nation is built on a proud history of providing refuge for the poor, persecuted, and disenfranchised.
I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.
We can all be heroes, joining together in a grand mission to save those living on this little blue planet.
We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.
It's time for all of us to unite across the state of Washington to build a working Washington. Let's get to work.
When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.
We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'
The American dream has always been about chasing opportunity and pursuing a brighter future for ourselves and our children.
We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.
Compassion, hope, and opportunity are some of the most fundamentally American values that we should fight like hell to protect.
Every state in this nation has been made better by those who have chosen to move here to escape persecution or extreme poverty.
Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.
Our dependency on oil continually creates security risks. Most threatening of all is the specter of uncontrolled climate change.
Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.
A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.
But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.
The oil companies, the big polluters, and the climate deniers are incredibly powerful. They will do everything they can to protect their profits.
If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today.
Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future.
The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.
There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.
In my state, I created a Clean Energy Fund and invested in electrifying our transportation system - from vehicles and buses to transit and even ferries.
The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.
Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.
Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.
On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.
Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.
We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.
We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.
The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.
President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.
The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
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.
From floods in Iowa and Nebraska to fires in California to hurricanes in Houston and Puerto Rico, we can no longer escape the fact that climate change is not happening in some far-off, distant future.
We are a compassionate nation, taking in the refugees and those, you know, fleeing, the huddled masses yearning to be free. This is something that's deeply ingrained in our hearts in the United States.
Climate change is a matter of great peril but also one of great promise. We can pioneer the industries of the future, create millions of good-paying jobs, and build the clean energy economy of the future.
Nations around the world - including Canada - are working to shift the global economy from dirty fossil fuels to clean energy. We must be vigilant in working to accelerate this transition, not slow or reverse it.