When you're going through an emotional experience and you're focussed completely on what's happening, you can't even spare any attention that the camera's there.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is the case. We have seen global warming so far of just a little bit less than one degree Celsius and look at what's happened. Superstorm Sandy. Boulder Colorado. All these fires. Hurricane Irene one year before.

A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.

As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws