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" Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics. "

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" If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy. "

" Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed. "

" My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Donald Duck for Walt Disney. "

" It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again. "

" We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. "

" Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds. "

" The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry. "

" Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies. "

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" I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants. "

" That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that. "

" Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started. "

" There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented. "

" We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis. "

" My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected. "

" I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful. "

" If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it. "

" Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world. "

" I am about safety for the people and the planet. "

" I don't think you can understand Trump's relationship to his voters and how he gets away with what he gets away with, without understanding the pact between a lifestyle brand and its consumer base and how that really transformed the global economy in the 1990s. "

" This is what he has been selling on the 'The Apprentice', through his self-help books, how to - you know, 'Trump 101' or the 'Art of the Deal' or, really, back to 'Art of the Deal'. So almost the more he gets away with, the more he is reinforcing his brand. "

" I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump. "

" Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes. "

" When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration? "

" If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be. "

" The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it's important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It's not a scientific organization. "

" You've got the Trump water and Trump Steaks and Trump's very so-called dodgy university. And so many of the towers, the Trump towers around the world, the Trump resorts around the world, those are not owned by the Trump Organization. "

" The Trump Organization is paid millions of dollars by these developers for the privilege of putting the Trump name on those towers. "

" What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation. "

" For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism. "