Chris Mooney Quotations

The fact that she's a moderate makes it possible for them to slide over.

We had a very hard time defending La Salle. We emphasize our offense so much, maybe we're not spending enough time on defense. We want to get back to being one of the better defensive teams and shut people down.

Shooting is a pretty essential thing in basketball, and when you make shots, it's so much easier. There's so much less tension and less pressure on you.

I think that the position they are in right now, McAllister is kind of the main guy who can score on his own. If you can concentrate on him or he struggles at all, they have a harder time scoring.

Part of our offense is that there are no set plays to get any certain person open. It's more about the flow, and the better players are going to end up with the most shots. Cage did a really good job on him and made it difficult to score all night.

I think Old Dominion, William and Mary, Virginia, hopefully one day Virginia Tech, I think those are great for us.

I think John Chaney will probably have a heart attack when he sees we scored 81 points.

We couldn't contain Dean. A couple of times we played very good defense on him, and he made really hard shots.

We haven't a won a game in this brutal month. It's been very difficult for us. You have to try to steal a win here or there, and we haven't done that.

When you're questioning your effort, you know you have a lot of work to do.

We didn't quite shoot well enough. We put ourselves in a position to win the game. If a few more shots fall, maybe we can do that.

We were not good, and unprepared, I guess, and emotionally not ready. They were so much more aggressive to the ball. Something that has been a staple of ours, our defense, just let us down tonight.

To the extent that someone is there to keep dredging it up, it's going to be an albatross around her neck forever. Blagojevich is going to drag this out again. That's the real test. This is just a preview.

Both these races could well be close. Primaries are hard to peg.

These days, things are different, and young women and middle-aged women would like to see a woman governor. That's why I say this kind of gives her a bit of an edge in that direction.

After it's sewn up, its safe to vote for the odd candidate in order to make a statement.

They got us out of what we were trying to do and kept us from getting any kind of rhythm going.

You can't just mail it in, because he's going to have a fight with the Republican.

Fordham was very aggressive. They just played very well and certainly got us out of any kind of rhythm that we wanted to establish.

It's going to be a low turnout election anyway.

That's something Bush obviously has to deal with. He has not dealt with the McCain question.

It's so hard for them. You really have to feel bad.

They cover so much ground and they are so fast that it is difficult. Passes that are open one second aren't open the next.

At times, they would go on scoring runs, which we haven't really had. We hadn't given up a significant scoring run, I think, all season.

Clearly I wish we were going out there with three first-team, all-league guards -- but that's not the case. The guard situation is something we can work on. It's not going to be a secret to us, or to anyone who plays us. We just have to make up for it with hopefully good coaching.

Charlotte's ability to score outside wore on us. They have a variety of guys and each is difficult to guard. Charlotte was more aggressive this game. We had them on their heels the first time.

I think that the world will continue trying to grapple with the climate problem, no matter who is U.S. president. But I think that, depending on who that president is, it can have a significant influence on the trajectory.

The Obama administration kind of shows how you can use diplomacy to bring the most important countries together and get the whole world on board.

Globally, you're seeing a big, big trend towards large installations of renewable energies across the world. You are going to see huge installations of wind and solar in places like Africa. These things are going to happen no matter what. They're going to happen for largely non-policy free market reasons even in the United States.

One of the reasons the United States has actually been reducing its emissions in recent years is actually that there's been a boom in natural gas. It's displacing coal. It emits less carbon dioxide when you burn it. This is not really an Obama policy. It's just something that happened because of technology and the free market.

Although not initially of his own choosing, Michael Mann has been the most important, resilient, and outspoken warrior in the climate battle--responding to threats and persecution with courage and resolve every step of the way. Anyone who cares about the climate issue must read his fascinating--and enraging--story.

We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.

We tried to talk about [the Owls' zone], but it's hard to replicate it. It's nearly impossible to penetrate that zone. What you do get are open outside shots. You're going to have to make some of them.

I think, domestically, one of the most interesting things that you would see under Presidenr Hillary Clinton is going to be the big energy infrastructure transition.

The obvious reductio ad absurdum is Holocaust deniers: Should their perspective be provided, for "balance," any time someone writes about the Holocaust?

Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.

Even if individual researchers are prone to falling in love with their own theories, the broader process of peer review and institutionalized skepticism are designed to ensure that, eventually, the best ideas prevail.

I don't mean to be na?ve and say, 'Hey, we just want to have the best possible students on our team,' even though that is important. But I'm comfortable coaching that type of kid, and it works. Princeton has been so good, and we did well at Air Force. It's been proven for so long.