Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

What I saw during the Hillary Clinton campaign [2016] with data dummies who were more concerned with polls than people, they were more concerned with donors than voters. And it wasn't a lot of heart felt on that campaign and I think it left us vulnerable.

Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.

The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it; the anti-elitism, the concern for working class jobs.

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 am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.

A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction.