I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

Now we have things that are obviously false, leading us to war, leading us to deny people health care, leading us to ignore the climate crisis. We have to restore the integrity of the democratic conversation.

We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth's atmosphere. It's threatening to push the planet past a tipping point beyond which climate change would be difficult to stop

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.

Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.

We have to use our reasoning capacity and set long-term goals based on our deepest values.