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.

It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

It's strange how extras have become such a big part of the business. I don't know what I think of it. I mean, some of them are great, most of them are filler.

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

Differences dont just threaten and divide us. They also inform enrich and enliven us.

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

I am private.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

I just go out and play.

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

I love fried food.

Humankinds desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.

One of lifes most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didnt do our homework that we are not prepared.

Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before it takes something from him.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.