Saikat Chakrabarti

What the Bernie campaign showed us was that you could out-raise a well-funded opponent with grassroots donations, and you could out-voter-contact them, too.

When you shoot for big stuff, you stay true to the movement. You fight unapologetically on the inside; that is a very, very powerful way to pass the radical solutions that are necessary to face the radical problems that you have.

We think climate change is important enough to get its own select committee. It would be in addition to the Energy and Commerce Committee's jurisdiction.

Yes, climate change is an existential threat, but there's also kind of this existential issue of why is it that as our society is progressing... things seem to be regressing and getting worse for a large number of people? Why is that happening? How do we fix that?

We need new leaders, period.

I think people more and more are tired of the party system. People want good candidates and good people to win.

I don't think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system.

I think Trump uses social media as a way to get to people's lowest common denominator. He uses it to incite fear. He talks about simplistic ideas.

The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn't originally a climate thing at all.

My personal belief in doing Brand New Congress is that the movement needs something to focus on that's constructive.