Thomas R. Carper: “People ask me what I like most about my job. I like helping people.”

Public engagement can build trust, it can increase public buy-in, can help resolve issues, can help prevent litigation, and ultimately it can save time and money.

We help make the rules for the country, and we do not do this by ourselves.

Well, there is a good compromise out there, and I think if we are smart and don't give up today, we will find it.

You and our colleagues have heard me invoke in this room more times than I can count the Golden Rule: Treat other people the way I want to be treated.