I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.

In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.

There are about 46,000 jobs supported by the solar industry right now. That's fewer than it should be, too. And you have a whole other set of jobs in energy-efficiency in buildings and in creating the "Smart Grid," as we call it.

Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.

Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.

If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.

We're just trying to end illegitimate government support for a single technology, which is un-American. We should be leading the world in the next generation of technological innovation. But we can't unleash private capital because of what the government is doing to stifle innovation and to choke competition.