Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

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.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

What I truly desire to do, I shall dare attempt.

Prosperity of wicked men runs like a torrent past, and soon is spent.

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

I'm different than Republican candidates, than other Republican candidates. I've got states that we can win that other Republican candidates wouldn't even stop over for dinner.

The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

Admire? No, I have never said that. I still appreciate Angela Merkel as a very professional and open person.