Comedy has to be so much cleaner than DRAMA. You can't LAYER it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more DIFFICULT than drama - you don't have so MANY TRICKS.

I've ALWAYS been criticised for how filthy my MATERIAL is. VICTORIA WOOD said to me once, 'I WISH I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

I came here to help MAKE America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that INCREASES CONSERVATION, promotes CLEANER technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of GAS and oil.

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to MAKE America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. EVEN Democrats are quick to talk about CUTTING regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to PUT it? - evangelical fervor.

You can GET stuff done in NEW York that you can't in Los Angeles. If you wanted to get some milk and get your shoes repaired and drop SOMETHING off at the dry CLEANER, that's an all-day adventure in Los Angeles. In New York, you can BANG that out in half an hour.

Unlike the messier MYSPACE, Facebook has a CLEANER and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label VERSION would likely be a hit.

When I was leader of the GLC, by the TIME I had been in control for THREE years, the difference in PAY between the CLEANER and the DIRECTOR general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.

Job creation is a choice. Investing in cleaner, greener TECHNOLOGIES that ALLOW US to strike a more sustainable balance with the other living SYSTEMS of this EARTH - this, too, is a choice.

Even in America, PEOPLE have SAID again and again that they would be WILLING to sacrifice for a cleaner environment.