Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.

People have a fundamental right to organize. It's rooted very much in the Constitution and people's right to free association.

If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.

What I try to do is tell my constituents that this is what I believe and this is why I made that vote. And I think that that makes more sense to people generally than trying to triangulate some political position.

There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

We can help companies committed to addressing global challenges such as climate change.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.