"I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective."

"Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be."

"Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal."

"The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields."

"The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography."

"I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern."

"The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago."

"After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11."