Most people won't have opportunity to do full-time service, but those lucky enough to have monetary wealth or some spare time really can make an enormous difference. As someone who's now in the public sector, and is seeing up-close-and-personal the real impact of what we do and what we give, I can tell you: every dollar and every volunteer help, in more ways than you can count.

After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

You can't sit there and worry about everything.

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.

We've continued progress in the six months since Trump got elected, and the good thing about what we're doing is that success begets success. As we bring down greenhouse gases, for example, we've closed half of the coal-fired power plants in the country in recent years. There's more impetus to try to close the other half because you can see that it is working. So, you know, I had hoped that Trump would not do that, and it doesn't make any sense to me, but regardless, it is not as cataclysmic as it could be.

In fact, you see Hillary [Clinton] moving very far to the left. You see all the Republicans moving very far to the right.