Two excerpts from Biden's inaugural speech

 

These caught my ear (and also my eye when I went back and re-read them):

One:

"Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire, destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn’t have to be a cause for total war. And we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured."

Two:

"Recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies, lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and responsibility, as citizens, as Americans, and especially as leaders, leaders who have pledged to honor our Constitution and protect our nation, to defend the truth and defeat the lies."

I'm going to try and keep on defending the truth about the science of climate change, a truth that is becoming more apparent every day and month, and defeat the lies of skeptics and deniers, even as they defy the truth of data and their own senses.