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

There's an old African proverb that says "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." We have to go far - quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it.

When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived.

Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

What's really important is how our country gets through Trump period, because nothing's getting done in Washington. Every day it's another set of tweets and another set of controversies. And they're not getting anything done.

A zebra does not change its spots.