I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.

Resistance to change is always the biggest obstacle.

Solar, for example - which has typically been thought of as so expensive - is cheap when compared with, for example, the cost of cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Gulf.

I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

Obviously the horse can still do things that the gas car can never do, and the gas car will always be able to do things the electric car can't do. But they have really different uses and advantages.

I like to take folks back to the turn of the century when people said 'gas cars can never replace horses because you can feed horses at your house, you get along with them, they're nice.'

I'm sure the gasoline companies would love to keep their 100 percent monopoly on transportation fuel.

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations

Don't let anybody's opinion kill your belief in yourself.

If I diminish you, I diminish myself

We'll do it right. You'll be proud of our country again.

To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

Development seems to have become the agenda only of government. It is seen as a scheme. That should not be the case. Development should be everyone's agenda. It should be a people's movement.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.