Rick Perry

Permitting reform is going to give businesses the confidence, the certainty, the freedom that they need.

I held my hand up and said that I was going to follow the rule of law and defend the Constitution.

The President's plan gives the Nation's Governors the power and the flexibility to prioritize infrastructure projects.

Streamlining permitting and modernizing our infrastructure will combine to revive our Nation at a time when it's sorely needed.

Washington, when they see a problem, it imposes these top-down mandates to what are uniquely local challenges.

Anytime that we can deliver LNG, for instance, whether it is sending it into Poland to that LNG facility up there, it sends the message to the rest of the European Union, you do not have to be held hostage by Russian gas.

What does it cost to build a system to keep America free?

I want to try to push the FERC and this country to take action so that we don't face that event in the future where people's lives are put in jeopardy or where this country's national security is jeopardized.

I hope what we can agree upon is that the 403 that I put forward was a way to kick start a national discussion about resiliency and about reliability of the grid.

And I don't think anyone would argue right now that nuclear energy is healthy. It is not. And it is not because of the regulatory burden that has been in place, the political burden that has been put in place.

We think small modular reactors, advanced reactors are the real way to the future.

I can make the argument that if you lose those coal fields in the northeast and you lose the ability to have the power that they currently produce, you can never replace that.