Distorting attacks when people already don't trust you is not smart.

To shift America (and the world) to a cleaner energy economy, millions of people will have to go to work in new industries. This necessary shift opens up tremendous new opportunities for work and wealth creation.

I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.

Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.

I think the Muslim community is now being asked to bear an unfair burden to save a great faith from the fundamentalists and a great nation from bigotry.

We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans.