Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.

I think the Muslim community is now being asked to bear an unfair burden to save a great faith from the fundamentalists and a great nation from bigotry.

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

Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a conference that I happened to be attending for the launch of an organization called Blacks in Green. I had never heard of him and Peter had never heard of me. We just started talking; he liked what I had to say, so he asked me if I'd be willing to be in this documentary he was doing about carbon pollution. I said, "Sure!" It was kind of a no-brainer.

In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true.

The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.

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