So I’m a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

The federal government can’t remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

Most of us complain about Congress. We say it’s a place that doesn’t reflect us; they don’t listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.

So when you’re dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as ‘we are all toast anyway,’ then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

I think we’re all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It’s sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

Many conservatives, I think, see action on climate change as really an attack on a way of life. That’s really a hard pill to swallow, that the whole way that I have created my life is wrong, you’re saying, that I shouldn’t have this house in the suburb, I shouldn’t be driving this car.

The challenge, of course, for us in that is that that increase in global energy demand will necessitate a 40 percent increase in OPEC oil production.

ExxonMobil predicts in their energy report at the end of last year that global energy demand will grow by 60 percent between now and 2030.

The $12 billion being saved in student loan provisions is a significant percentage of the $40 billion in total savings over five years.

Hundreds of American soldiers have given their lives in Afghanistan to promote liberty, including freedom of conscience and religion.