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

I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life.

Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.

Basically, we all just had to live in the Trump reality television show, and now we're kind of stuck there for at least four years. Maybe eight.

I do feel kind of like I have a split identity in that there's Van Jones, who has this big public role and tries to inspire millions of people to do new stuff together. And then there's just me: a pretty quiet, shy, retiring person.

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.

I hope everybody's getting smarter.