It is extremely disappointing to me to see that even now when leading Democrats and even military veterans try to make our energy future an area of common ground and not a battleground, they are still being rebuffed by dirty energy devotees in both parties and undermined overall by the polluter lobby.

When somebody comes along and says, "I think Washington, DC, sucks," that's not wrong.

We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.

People forget: solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Businesses don't retrofit themselves to waste less energy and water, nor do homes weatherize themselves.

There's no higher honor, in my estimation, than being asked to serve in the White House.

Dirty energy is a finite resource; the more of it we use, the scarcer it becomes.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.