Guests: financier T. Boone Pickens; professor and author Peter Singer; Myr. Cory Booker (D-Newark); business news anchor Erin Burnett

On Green Initiatives

Because the only way we're going to have an energy plan in America, it's got to come from us. I'm talking about the grass roots.  T. Boone Pickens

There's an urban farming movement going on in America, because a lot of folks don't have access to Whole Foods - or "Whole Paycheck" as some people call it.  Myr. Cory Booker

On the Economy

I've heard people say, 'You know what? The rich are feeling it, too.' No, their statements are feeling it, too. 'Feeling it,' is when you used to eat three meals a day and now you have two.  Bill Maher

The largest number of people who are really struggling to meet their basic physical needs are not in this country, and we are not really doing very much to help them.
 Peter Singer

If you're looking to TV commentators of any sort to predict or solve our problems, you're looking in the wrong place.  Erin Burnett

Is there something wrong with the American psyche that we always feel like it has to be bigger and more and better, that we have to super-size everything?  Bill Maher

We don't always have to be number one - we could raise alpacas and just be happy with that.  Bill Maher

Nobody even has time to read the hundred-page housing plan, because we have a health care plan that sent health care stocks down 25 percent since it was announced. People can't figure it out. They're confused.  Erin Burnett

On Prisons

Let's dig in and let's make a declaration in America that we are going to be really the land of the free and the home of the brave, and we're going to work to reduce our prison population and free our people.  Myr. Cory Booker

On Obama

The reality is I think we've got the best president imaginable in the White House right now. But, if we wait on him to solve all our problems, we're not being American.  Myr. Cory Booker

On Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh is not the center part of our country right now and does not deserve the kind of focus we're giving him. And we're making him more powerful than he is.  Myr. Cory Booker