You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too.
These magnificent species of Africa - elephants, rhino, lions, leopards, cheetah, the great apes (Africa has four of the world's five great apes) - this is a treasure for all humanity, and they are not for sale. They are not for trade. They need to be valued and preserved by humanity. We all need a global commitment to that.
We did a campaign here with New York Times. We had a great ad: "Today in America, someone will kill an elephant for a bracelet. " We became sensitized in our society. Now there are four or five billion people in Asia who need to get this message. We need to use social media, print magazines, celebrities - anything we can to share this message. It's not cool, it's not okay. You are destroying beautiful animals. You are robbing a continent of its wealth. And you are hurting a lot of innocent people.
In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still.
There's no space for wildlife; the humans are crowding them out.
In the West, we got the message that it's not cool to wear ivory. It's not cool to utilize products from these wonderful species. They are not commodities. We need the whole world to join hands in getting this message now, particularly countries in Asia and certain communities that have not been educated about this. They have not had the campaigns that we had.
If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
Uh oh, it's beer o'clock, I think I'm sober. How about we think this over, over a can of King Cobra?
Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.
When Sarah Palin goes out and says this [about her son] is because of this [ post- traumatic stress disorder], it`s actually not because of this. And now it sort of gives the idea that all veterans are going to pick up a weapon and shoot somebody, or all veterans are going to hit somebody.