I think there are a lot of people who feel very passionate about needing to have an open debate. And I think it's a real sign of leadership that the press needs to be actually standing up for that.

My support is particularly Bernie Sanders supporters but that's drawn many [Donald] Trump supporters to start with.

We are in the target hairs in this election [2016]. We are all asking whether we are going to have a world at all or not going forward.

According to, for example, one academic by the name of Philip Harvey, whose expertise is basically how do we create a New Deal, today. According to his estimate, these jobs could be created for far less than the [Barack] Obama stimulus package, which cost, you know, $700 or $800 billion, something like that, and produced around 3 million jobs - not a lot. According to his estimates, it would cost less to produce two-thirds of 20 million.

The Green New Deal is about creating economic security for everyone, and doing it quickly.

We're looking at catastrophic impacts in our lifetime, not only that every month now we're setting a new World Almanac record.

I think public health is kind of in a very sad state of affairs here in this country.