Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine.

One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40 to 1 percent in the last four decades. Concurrently, the amount of rainfall has declined to the point where the country is rapidly becoming a wasteland.

I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.

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.

The United States is the only nation that can lead the world toward a solution on climate change.

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.