Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.

It's almost as if we have two lobes in our brain. There's the consumer and investor mode, and we're doing better and better at that lobe. But at the producer and seller mode, we have to work harder and harder. And the better we do as consumers and investors - the easier it is for us to choose something better, to exit every commercial relationship - the harder we have to work as sellers and producers. One follows from the other.

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

We are now enjoying the liberation that comes with not having to be organization men and women, and that's fabulous. But there are new social consequences here of which we need to be aware, and the sale of the self and what that entails for the rest of our lives is quite sobering.

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.