There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.

I think [George W.] Bush has done nothing right about global warming.

I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now I think it's up to all sorts of people who really care about these things to continue on this new ground to try and make this the central political issue it needs to be.

The fact that Washington has been a complete logjam for anything for the last six years has got to change because we need to have federal policy that really allows us to move quickly and nimbly.

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.

By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.