You have the Republican Party, who see themselves in their heart of hearts as being a party of colorblind meritocracy. That's their great belief about themselves. And yet somehow you also have a party where a lot of racial resentment and a camp of even neo-Nazis have set up camp in their party. If you point it out to them, they get mad at you, not at the neo-Nazis.

Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.

The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of bi-partisan resolution.

The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.

The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused across party lines.

I learned more in those six months [ in the White House] than in the prior six years. I don't think that anybody who has had the privilege to serve the country at that level should walk out and behave like a crybaby. And I plan to continue to serve the country in other capacities.

Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.