To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.

I think it would be good to get somebody a job. Right now we're in a bubble of green rhetoric and a bowl of actual green investment and job creation. So my goal for next year is to move from inspiration to implementation on this stuff.

Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."

I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.

I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.

Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.

Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.