There seems to be a passive alliance between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and that's unprecedented in its form and dangerous in its content, because Russia is our most dangerous geopolitical opponent because of the desires that they have in the Middle East and because of their desire to break up Europe. And in the United States, we spent a lot of blood and a lot of treasure trying to keep Europe intact and democratic, and trying to keep the Middle East from being only influenced by people who are massive fans of [Syrian President] Assad and massive fans of the Iranians.

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

Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg

I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.

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

That old Bobby Kennedy 1968 form of liberalism where you could be holding hands with the Appalachian family on one day and then be in Harlem the next day and nobody thinks it's weird, that is something that isn't as strong. It was strong in 2008. It hasn't been as strong since then. That's just a reality that we have to deal with that it's not just that the Republicans ran a terrible candidate who had bad ideas, it's also that the circle of love and affirmation that we have as progressives can sometimes just not be big enough.

Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.