"I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service."

"You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it."

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."

"Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends."

"In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do."