On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.

I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.

Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.