Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection re….

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy ….

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as w….

I have been very outspoken in my opposition to cuts in what I would call the means-tested entitlement programs: Medicaid, food stamps, and all of tha….

I think of Martin Luther King phrase a lot when I'm deciding public issues. He said: "Here I stand: I can do no other." It is basically an affirmatio….

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans..

On areas like abortion where there is major disagreement among the mainstream religious groups in the Judeo-Christian tradition, I believe that requi….

The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American econom….

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged..