In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true.

Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?

There's no higher honor, in my estimation, than being asked to serve in the White House.

When you get $1 billion of free advertising, it's hard not to have anybody buy the product.

It's become fashionable to put down people who we then expect to vote for us.

Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they went in. We would have safer neighborhoods if we spent the same money on true rehabilitation, job training, employment and entrepreneurship.

The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.