"Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets."

"In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event."

"In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010."

"But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid."

"Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to."

"I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have."

"Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest."

"Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold."