We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans.

I'm an environmentalist, and I don't want you to have a disposable aluminum can. I sure as hell don't want to have a disposable worker and I don't care who you vote for. You've got to have that as a moral position. Otherwise, my concern is, all we are is this petty interest group people who can't say anything back to a petty interest group of white nationalism.

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

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

You have the Republican Party, who see themselves in their heart of hearts as being a party of colorblind meritocracy. That's their great belief about themselves. And yet somehow you also have a party where a lot of racial resentment and a camp of even neo-Nazis have set up camp in their party. If you point it out to them, they get mad at you, not at the neo-Nazis.

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

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.