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When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

I'm a big fan of # Bitcoin

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

The center of the earth is about a million degrees.

I feel passionate about solving the climate crisis.

Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

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

Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming!

I tell you that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he? He's just unbelievable!

A leapord never changes his stripes.

I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.

It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling.

I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.

The will to act is a renewable resource.

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern.

We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.

I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off.

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

When you pray, move your feet." Prayer without action, like optimism without engagement, is passive aggression toward the future. Even

Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame.

I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.

The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth.

I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.

The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

I would kiss Tipper much longer.

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.

I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

American democracy has been hacked.

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

The wind and the sun are free.

A zebra does not change its spots.

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

You can't be value free when it comes to marriage

It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.

A zebra can not change it's spots.

I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.

I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.

We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

I want to extend condolences to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations.

Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.

Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.

The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

It's always been my dream to come to Madison Square Garden and be the warm-up act for Elvis.

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

I think I may have a future as a disembodied head.

Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine ...

When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.

Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

Air travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

You have to rip your opponent's lungs out and then move on.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.

The emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

I was born a poor black child.

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.