Ted Stevens: “Mr. Secretary, I am informed that there are plans to reduce the end strength of the Navy by 7,900 sailors, and another…”

I'm hopeful that this hearing will be a useful springboard to advance renewable energy development.

Shame on us. It's because we're addicted to oil in one arm, and we're addicted to greed that somehow we have convinced people that we can't do it.

The need for a stronger Coast Guard presence, including icebreakers and forward operating bases to assert our national interest in the opening Arctic waters deal with the search and rescue and other responsibilities of increased maritime…

I say failure is if you don't try. I say failure is if you give up.