Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.

We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.

Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

When somebody comes along and says, "I think Washington, DC, sucks," that's not wrong.

We have gotten to the point where we're more like [Donald] Trump than Trump. Trump is hateful. Now you have liberals hating on love. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. There's nothing wrong with that. But sometimes you have to fight fire with water. I'm happy to fight it either way.

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.