We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.

If you want to understand what's going to happen, you can't look in the rearview mirror into the United States' history, because that's done now. You have to look out at the rest of the world and look at the history of the rest of the world, and what you'll see is demonstrations and counter-demonstrations are going to become the norm. We'll have a big march, then they'll have a big march, we'll have a big rally and they'll have a big rally. That will be one of the features. Again, a pro-regime and pro-opposition media system, that will become a feature.

We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.

Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.

We're getting back what we're putting out.

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

I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.