In grad school, I took to heart a quote about how our prosperity, freedoms, and civilization depend on the quality of our leaders and the courage to face facts and find solutions—whether in energy, the environment, the economy, or national security. This truth guided my early career. One day, the truth itself gets lost.

"⁠It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled."

- Daniel Ellsberg⁠