Jill Stein in The Washington Post

On Energy & Oil: Declare a climate emergency & get to 100% renewables by 2030

STEIN: 2030 is doable--it is a political problem. It cannot be done unless we have essentially declared a climate emergency. And I would cite, for example, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, where we converted our economy from essentially zero percent of GDP focused on wartime production to 25% of GDP within the course of six months. It was a massive national mobilization predicated on the understanding that this was a national emergency.

Q: So are you saying that we should be spending 25% of GDP on this energy transition?

STEIN: No, what I'm saying is that we have done remarkable things when we understand that we have a true national emergency. And I think Pearl Harbor and the Second World War was a national emergency. I think what we're facing right now is an equivalent national emergency.

On Foreign Policy: Re-examine NATO to avoid economic and military domination

STEIN: I think we need to take a good hard look at NATO. In my view NATO needs to be part of a re-examination of a foreign policy that has been based on economic and military domination and we need to look at what the consequences of this kind of foreign policy are. And, you know we spent $6 trillion--

Q: What's the domination, where NATO comes into it?

STEIN: Well, NATO for example is how we can do an end run around our own internal process when we want to create regime change somewhere.

Q: So your running mate [Ajamu Baraka] referred to the "gangster states" of NATO. Do you share that view?

STEIN: Well, he uses language I would not use. But, shall we say, I don't think it represents American democracy to do an end run around our process or determining when we will go to war.

Q: Well he uses language, but what does he mean?

STEIN: I think he means the same thing I'm saying.

On Homeland Security: $6 trillion to pay for wounded veterans from failed wars

On War & Peace: Invasions violate international law unless we're threatened

STEIN: Well, criminal? Does it violate international law? Yes. I think it does violate international law.

Q: What violates international law?

STEIN: For example, sending in the troops to Libya. Sending in the troops to Iraq for that matter. I think the criteria for invading other countries is that we need to be under imminent threat. And I think it would be hard to establish that we were under imminent threat, say, in Libya. Or in Iraq for that matter. I would argue that this is not consistent with international law or human rights, and that that should be the basis of our foreign policy going forward. We're proposing essentially a weapons embargo, a freeze on the bank accounts of countries who continue to fund terrorist enterprises and also we call on allies like Turkey to close their borders to the movement of jihadi groups.