In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.

For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.

Charles Vest

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

Michael Nesmith

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Kevin Spacey

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Jimmy Carter

I have this theory about why men kill each other and break things.... Never mind. It's a dumb theory. I was going to say it was all sexual... but everything is sexual... but alcohol.

Kurt Vonnegut

Human love is not love. Love is natural to every body but it becomes human love as the person learns from society to confuse love with sex.

Barry Long

4. We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.

Adolph Gottlieb

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

Armistead Maupin

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

Charles Dickens

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's life.

Joyce Brothers

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

Elizabeth Taylor

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Theodore Parker