"This is a huge opportunity for California to create an energy system that’s rooted in climate justice, that’s rooted in the realities of the changing climate, and how they’re going to ensure that they actually are creating a resilient California."

"This is really an opportunity to think bigger and think in a bolder way than we have before about what it's going to take, not just to fill the gaps in our infrastructure that the crisis has so clearly laid bare, but also to think beyond,

"If there were an opposition movement in countries like Canada and the United States and Europe, the demand wouldn't just be, 'You gotta stop this'; the demand would actually be, 'Hey, we’ve got to prosecute the people involved with this.

The $150 billion designated for state, local and tribal governments as relief from the Covid-19 crisis is nowhere near what those governments will need—and not just that, but forcing them to cut budgets just as they need to be spending more is going to...

"Frontline, essential workers are seen as heroes. And that type of energy is really going to change the conversation. Nobody really thought of grocery store workers as heroes before this."

What would it look like to call corporate media's bluff on their sudden, serious respect for working people who didn't start being important because there's a contagious disease going around?

"The fact is, the kind of economy that's being celebrated by the 1% is, frankly, the same economy that's existed in a lot of other countries for a long time."

"We now have 28 years of experience with Reaganism. The average income of the bottom 90% of Americans is today what it was back in 1980, when you adjust for inflation, and the incomes of the top tenth of 1% and above have gone through the roof.

Strikes going on around the country right now are an indication of how workers are reacting to this moment, in which it's being made painfully clear that they are deemed both essential and expendable at once.

"The first thing that the CDC tells you to do to help prevent the spread of disease is to wash your hands. But if you don't have water at home, you can't take that simple action to protect yourself or your family or your community."