I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.

We should tell people we are working to protect our country. We are working to make America stronger for the long run.

Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too.

I think that for those of us who come from oppressed backgrounds and who do our work in marginalized communities, recovering our innocence is one of the most important acts of self-liberation and de-colonization. Not letting the requirement that we adapt to impossible circumstances and unconscionable crimes leave us shackled to the kind of cynicism and armor such that we can't breathe and laugh and magnetize to ourselves all the genius and love and support that we need to transform the situation. That's probably the biggest challenge, is to recover our innocence.

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.

I'm only 42, and I've got a lot more tricks up my sleeve.