“If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.”

We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.

I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’

To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.

Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world.

Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.

It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?

Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.

You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.

I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They’re very efficient.

If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.

The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.

The concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s.

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.

My last name is originally Irish. I’m not exactly sure whereabouts it’s from, but I’ve got family branches that were traced back there.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.

My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.

I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.

Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.

Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn’t appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.