When you get $1 billion of free advertising, it's hard not to have anybody buy the product.

I think it would be good to get somebody a job. Right now we're in a bubble of green rhetoric and a bowl of actual green investment and job creation. So my goal for next year is to move from inspiration to implementation on this stuff.

The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming and the global recession at the same time, with the same method. We can do this by putting people to work re-powering America with clean energy.

We should stop calling ourselves environmentalists - and just call ourselves patriots.

The Whitehouse is talking different because we are walking different