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" We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. "

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" Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place. "

" The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world. "

" CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past. "

" You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category. "

" In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous? "

" When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler. "

" When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term. "

" Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play. "

" Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed. "

" The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going. "

" If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. "

" The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains. "

" It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling. "

" Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. "

" As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. "

" Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally. "

" There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming. "

" Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights. "

" A zebra does not change its spots. "

" Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. "

" I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world. "

" I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head. "

" Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. "

" I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. "