“The Thinking Man’s Thinking Man: Al Gore’s New Plan for the Planet.”

“I’m honored to be joined today by the Godfather of Green, the King of Conservation: Former Vice President Al Gore.”

“Clinton and Gore, back in the international spotlight again. A reminder to some of a different time, almost two decades ago, when the two campaigned across the nation, a Boomer buddy team....Both are now international superstars, Gore a Nobel laureate. But the homecoming that they engineered together this week has to remain one of their best joint ventures.”

“This woman has a life story that you couldn’t make up! I mean, you know, she’s born in the public projects, in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, a single parent household, she goes to a Catholic school, she gets scholarships to the best schools in the country, Princeton and Yale, she overcomes all that while dealing with diabetes all her life, and she is Hispanic....This was the political advisor’s dream candidate.”

Anchor Katie Couric: “One of the key players in getting this deal approved is the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. I talked to her this afternoon as Senate negotiators were announcing the agreement and we spoke right after she had been on the phone with the President. [To Pelosi:] Are you surprised how intimately involved he is in the whole process?”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “Quite frankly, yes. I said, ‘Mr. President, neither of us has time for this conversation, especially you,’ because we really, we understand each other. We know where we need to go.”

Couric, smiling: “Can you tell us anything he said to you, like, ‘Get cracking’?”

Pelosi, laughing: “No, never that. We’re always cracking.”

Co-host Diane Sawyer: “The battle begins: How will President Obama’s Latina powerhouse handle the opposition?”...

Correspondent Claire Shipman: “Even as a little girl, growing up in a drug-ridden South Bronx housing project, stricken with juvenile diabetes, she had that trademark knack: instead of seeing dead ends, young Sonia saw possibilities; instead of giving up, she investigated every angle....She’s also an avid Yankees fan, a mean guacamole maker, and a fierce biker.”

“If I were writing the American people’s guide to understanding President Jimmy Carter...what should people, once and for all, understand about you and what has set you apart from other chief executives — in mind set and your wiring?”