Steven Chu: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

Whether the investors are Republicans or Democrats did not enter into any decision as to whether we were going to fund the loan.

It is, quite frankly, ours to lose because we still have the best research institutions.

We believe that that ATVM loans, for example, the loans to Ford and to Nissan, saved or generated many, many thousands of jobs.

President Obama has a plan for the United States to win the future by out-innovating, out-educating and out-building the rest of the world while at the same time addressing the deficit.