"I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku."

“At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator’s house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?”

Source : "At What Point Do People Revolt?" by Erick Erickson, www.redstate.com. March 31, 2009.

“What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.”

“I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.”

“I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.”

“The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,”

Source : "Globalisation and agriculture industry exacerbating bee decline, says UN" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.

“With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.”

“It hurts being the one who loves more”

“It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf.”