Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

There are 80,000 jobs in the wind energy industry right now. And you can quadruple that number, if you have the right policy in place to promote clean energy.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

[I wish no one ever asked me ] "Did you sign that petition implicating the Bush Administration in 9/11?" Because I never signed it, and I hate being vilified for a controversial idea I never espoused.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

You don't get lower ratings playing the villain on reality TV.