“The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.”

“Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.”

“The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.”

“In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.”

“you can't be value free when it comes to marriage”

“political will is a renewable resource”

“We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.”