I started out as a Democrat.

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

I was a little too young to be a hippie.

We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.

My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.

I started out as a Democrat.

Tell me what you eat Ill tell you who you are.

Treat me like a queen and Ill treat you like my king. Treat me like a game. And Ill show you how its played.

The night before a show, I don't sleep. Really. I've been doing this for 30 years, and the night before a show, I still don't sleep.

My music is not a particular genre. It's not bubblegum or cheese. It's just good songs, pop songs. It's just my songs.

It shouldnt matter how slowly a child learns as long as we are encouraging them not to stop.

As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been.

I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.

You have to understand that when things go wrong in your life, it doesn't mean you need to quit. It means you need to get stronger and change your plan.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those guys.

I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson. These letters would say things like, 'You're so funny, you make me laugh, with your big rubbery face,' and I would say, 'You can't mean me!'

Why do we have to have another riot?

Scotland is so gorgeous that every time I'm there, I start to dream of living there. I want to buy one of those whitewashed cottages with the thatch roofs and gaze out at the sea and read my books. I want to be away from the Internet and the news and lawn mowers at 7 A.M. on Sunday mornings.

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

In wrestling, there's a shelf life, and some wrestlers don't pay attention to the shelf life.

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

The true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.