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

Asia is rising economically - and is thirsty for oil. The price pressures on oil and oil price shocks, due to Asia's economic rise, mean that all steps made now to reduce oil dependence will protect us from pain and volatility later.

If we keep pulling death from the ground, we will reap death from the skies.

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

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

If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.

If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.