In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.