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The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.