[Hillary Clinton] was going to have a very difficult pathway going forward anyway.
Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power it's rancher power it's Appalachian power.
The laws of supply and demand drive up the price inevitably over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.
The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people aroused across party lines.
The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of bi-partisan resolution.
Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.
Anybody who's mad should run for something.
Donald Trump's going to start a war he's going to start attacking immigrants or Muslims or Black Lives Matter or whatever. Because he's going to have to distract them from the no jobs.
There's no higher honor in my estimation than being asked to serve in the White House.
I'm not asking for more entitlement programs; I'm asking for more enterprise.
To change our laws and culture the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people not just the majority of affluent people.
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.
When you get $1 billion of free advertising it's hard not to have anybody buy the product.
Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda too.
It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.
The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.
I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws but without additional oversights.
By kicking its carbon addiction America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.
We're going to bake this planet and be a curse to all species including our own if we don't find an alternative to carbon-based fuel. That's the #1 problem.
No one is above the law and no one is beneath the law.
Distorting attacks when people already don't trust you is not smart.
There's the God within and the God without and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.
Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy by Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden and no one else trying to hurt America.
We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies manufacturing plants and green jobs.
I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American.
Apparently the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal reserves.
Trump is holding together the shakiest coalition that you could conceivably govern on. It is a conservative populist alliance that agrees with itself on very little.
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 are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans.
The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon fail to deliver and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.
The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.
Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted.
Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?
It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors the city councils and the school boards "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?
People in red states and blue states can agree that clean air is better than dirty air; therefore we should use clean energy where we can.
Come then let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.
[Donald] Trump phenomenon is just marbles with all this toxic stuff the misogyny the outright bigotry and so now people are left to try to pull this apart.
Right now the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters despoilers incarcerators and warmongers.
A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.
Big government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places small in others and non-existent in others.
The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.
We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.
We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion diversity and equal opportunity for everyone.
Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
In the fourth quadrant (lower right) working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.
Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg
Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology there's media there's business.
To green our country regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots roll up their sleeves - and get to work.
Trust your intuition and be resilient. If you have real breakout ideas even your friends will laugh at you secretly until you can prove their viability.
Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal but not in the science of burning coal.
I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.
Well we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?
I'm excited about our rising generation.
The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.
Right now when you go and hit the light switch in your house you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.
A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful skilled people. That means more jobs.
If we do nothing the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.
I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.
We should stop calling ourselves environmentalists - and just call ourselves patriots.
Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability " which nobody understands.
Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.
We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in the political corner.
I'm learning and changing all the time and I expect to continue doing so my entire life.
I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.
We need to invest in job training programs especially those that include child care transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships.
A lot of liberals think all the Trump voters are a part of the alt right neo Nazi camp which is not true. That's a tiny tiny slice.
I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.
Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.
In countries where there are real civil wars people go through a lot and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.
Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.
There are 80 000 jobs in the wind energy industry right now. And you can quadruple that number if you have the right policy in place to promote clean energy.
You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma but less than a four-year degree.
I don't like to comment on a specific local issue because there are plenty of people already working on the problem who know a lot more about it than I do.
I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.
If you look at my career over the past twenty years I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.
We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport but community gardens don't plant themselves.
Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said "I have a complaint.
Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress so you have a big statement there.
Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun the moon and the Earth's inner fire.
Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered costly and disastrous.
The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power the cheaper those technologies become.
Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.
Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.
Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point coal supplies will drop.
We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.
Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator and disrespect the creation.
After all we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.
Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.
You have a new media system and Donald Trump emerged as a new master of it.
Donald Trump was underrated but he understood social media and he understood reality television.
Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party the future of the progressive movement.
Donald Trump's a great deal-maker with a lot of momentum and it will do a lot of damage to us. We are in grave peril and it's going to be terrible.
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.
I hope everybody's getting smarter.
People are going to have to do a big reset. But this is a big wake-up call to the entire establishment including the Democrats. And not just because of the failure.
The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.
I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.
We have the water food and other industries which are also experiencing some redirection.
The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it; the anti-elitism the concern for working class jobs.
The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco- populism . Ecopopulism ... To change our laws and culture the green movement justice political solutions and social change.
The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.
I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.
I'm not calling for redistributing wealth; I'm calling for reinvigorating our stuck energy sector so some new entrepreneurs can create some new wealth.
Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.
Dirty energy is a finite resource; the more of it we use the scarcer it becomes.
Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.
You don't get fewer followers saying outrageous stuff on Twitter.
All humans have fear and those of us who are fortunate have faith.
I don't put myself above anyone and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and I hope improve over time.
If we keep pulling death from the ground we will reap death from the skies.
Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions not hundreds of thousands.
We pull out of the ground death we burn death in our power plants and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.
When it gets harder to love love harder.
We just want government to be a smart supportive reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.
To the God in myself is probably the most honest answer. I think everybody has a divine destiny.
America's government has to get the public investments right.
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.
We should tell people we are working to protect our country. We are working to make America stronger for the long run.
Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution.
Local politics matters a lot.
Basically we all just had to live in the Trump reality television show and now we're kind of stuck there for at least four years. Maybe eight.
You don't get lower ratings playing the villain on reality TV.
If we stand for change we can spark a popular movement with power influence magic and genius.
If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes the road will NEVER be built.
In America we're in the middle of a cyberwar with Russia.
I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists when in fact I don't think they're all racists but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.
Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting though to the - what the real threats are and the real opportunities.
We need a national renewable energy goal. Such a goal sometimes called a renewable energy standard (RES) would spell out what percentage of our power America plans to get from renewable sources.
Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.
The problem isn't that the green jobs aren't sexy enough. It's that they're not plentiful enough. A young person looking for a job isn't looking just for a sexy job they're looking for any job.
We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon.
When somebody comes along and says "I think Washington DC sucks " that's not wrong.
I'm only 42 and I've got a lot more tricks up my sleeve.
The Whitehouse is talking different because we are walking different
[Donald Trump] has a tremendous opportunity you know this week to come out and say I don't want that.