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" One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious. "

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" Because the Republicans are never going to turn on Trump so long as he still has his base, and he will continue to have his base so long as this idea that he is standing up for workers, it remains intact. And the only way that that gets eroded is if it isn't just about Russia all the time, but is also about those economic betrayals. "

" Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise. "

" I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall. "

" It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground. "

" Fossil fuels are - they're inherently centralized. And you need a lot of infrastructure to get them out, and you need a lot of infrastructure to transport it, as Obama was explaining in front of all that pipe, right? Whereas renewable energy is everywhere. "

" I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America. "

" 2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused. "

" 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. "

" The electoral strategy for 2016 was, 'Vote for me; I'm not Trump,' and, 'Trump is dangerous, so get out and vote.' "

" I am not saying Russia is not important, but Trump's base is very well defended against that: 'the liberal media is out to get him', 'it's fake news', and all the rest. "

" We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one of the most intractable problems we face, which is gross wealth inequality. We can't fight climate change without dealing with inequality in our countries and between our countries. "

" 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. "

" As I was writing 'The Shock Doctrine', I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to see these patterns repeat in the aftermath of natural disasters, like the Asian tsunami and then Hurricane Katrina. "

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

" Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that. "

" I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement. "

" 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. "

" One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour. "

" In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States. "

" A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped. "

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

" I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change. "

" We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system. "

" The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it. "

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

" The problem with Donald Trump is that he went and designed a brand that is entirely amoral. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right? "

" In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged. "