The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

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

If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very hard to handle it right, then that's a - a huge advantage in the mid-terms for us.

Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's yard. I don't understand why corporate polluters should be allowed to dump megatons of carbon, the most dangerous pollution in the history of the world, into our thin shell of an atmosphere, and not pay a penny to do it.

In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.

I'm saying you should have the right not only to be an energy consumer but an energy producer. Follow the money to understand why my message keeps getting drowned out. Big oil and big coal are terrified by the green jobs message.