This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt, but as a result America is in the calamity.

If you just say that, look at all the good stuff and you don't acknowledge the toxic stuff, you're wrong. If you're only looking at toxic stuff and don't recognize there's going to be some good stuff if you're for infrastructure or whatever, you're wrong.

I think the Muslim community is now being asked to bear an unfair burden to save a great faith from the fundamentalists and a great nation from bigotry.

Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.

We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships.

The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.