Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less as we're turning more to gas. But, around the world, that's what they're using.

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop me from going out at night because you'd go someplace and your clothes would reek and you wouldn't enjoy the experience and that affects your rights. It's always a question. Whenever you are talking about these issues, it's not a question of restricting rights. It's a question of restricting whose rights, and providing for whose rights and that's a tricky balance.

I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things.

I don't see a coherent global order anywhere on the horizon.

It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.