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.

When you love something, you're gonna be the best at it.

Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.

To observe the wild animals in the natural settings one have to become wild to achieve specific goal.

I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to accept every movie that comes along.

I like that I'm in shape but still look like a woman. I don't feel like I've had to give up my femininity to be an athlete. I feel good about my body because I work hard every day, and I still look and carry myself as a woman - a strong woman.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.

There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.

I hear good things about Xbox Live from some of my younger teammates. I think it would be fun to be able to challenge fans all over the world. It would be cool to be able to play some of my friends back home in the States. I'm looking forward to trying it.

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

I really like clever men who challenge you.

My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.

When it comes up with my age, I'm like, let's just end the conversation there. That's irrelevant to me. I'll pitch until I'm 40.

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

Thais enjoy a good joke. If a westerner asks a Thai to give a brief explanation for Thailand's climate, he/she might grin, pause, and then, with an authoritative air, reply that Thailand's climate is composed of three basic seasons...hot, hotter, and hottest.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.