Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too.

We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.

It is the Muslim community that has the best chance of stopping and checking and pushing back on people who are trying to politicize their own faith. So this attack on Islam is an attack on a great faith. It undermines the people who are trying to rescue this faith from these horrible people. It endangers every human being on earth because it accelerates the radicalization of some and emboldens the worst elements of that faith. So this fight is a fight I think that we have to take on.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

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

Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.

There would be a cost for dumping carbon into our atmosphere and a cap on total emissions. The government must make a clear and firm decision - terminating the idea in our society it is free to pump infinite amounts of carbon into the air. Once that happens, private capital will flow even more aggressively into developing and deploying the alternative, less-polluting technologies.