D. James Baker
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"D. James Baker" is an American scientist who was trained as a physicist, practiced as an oceanographer, and has held science and management positions in academia, non-profit institutions, and government agencies. He a former Under Secretary of Commerce for Atmosphere and Oceans and Administrator of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and currently Director, Global Carbon Measurement Program, William J. Clinton Foundation working with forestry programs in developing countries with the aim of reducing carbon dioxide emissions and at the same time helping alleviate poverty.

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Every one of the recommendations in our report, whether they are recommendations to the Congress or recommendations to the states, are designed to improve confidence in our system of federal elections.

It's not that I believe he's trying to avoid it.

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Hurricanes Floyd and Irene were cruel reminders that hurricanes can produce tragic loss of life and devastating economic disruption from inland flooding beyond a hurricane's damaging wind, storm surge or tornadoes.

Did we break the law or not ... it's real concerning to me and real concerning to the public.

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

That's something we're looking at as part of this change. I think if the audience values our content more and more, then in an evolving universe... you're going to set a price against that. There's an argument that there is an opportunity to explore there.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

It seems to me that those actions send very conflicting signals.