Somebody needs to swing at the end of a rope here. I don't mean literally. I mean, somebody's got to lose their job over this, or something's got to happen.

Let's get to the bottom of it, and then -- look, somebody needs to swing at the end of a rope here.

The president said there was a systemic breakdown. I thought that was a very smart and courageous thing to say.

Just -- I think there's this thing, just because you don't go out and run your mouth every day and you sit and you do the job, that's fine with me.

Just because you don't go out and run your mouth every day, and you sit and you do the job, that's fine with me.

If this thing doesn't come through, it will be viewed as a setback for the president. But presidents have setbacks, and I suspect that he'll be able to recover from that.

When President Obama took office, we were losing 400,000 or 500,000 jobs a month. Now we're down to losing 11,000. The confidence in the economy has gone up.

Let's wait to see next summer as we go into the election and we start seeing some growth in this economy, and he'll be able to take credit and be able to play all the people that said what he was doing would never work.

You know, look, the health care debate has been long. It's coming to a conclusion here, and you've got people disagreeing. The problem, as David Axelrod can count to 60 and so can Harry Reid. And if you can't get to 60 votes you can't get…

These primary advantages: affordability, speed of construction, and flexibility may indicate that for these initial years of what I hope will be a true 'nuclear renaissance', we may want to think smaller instead of larger--and build more…

The technology is real and with a dedicated commitment from the government and industry, I see a bright future for not only the country, but in particular Louisiana.

What I'd like to do is turn all these green on go.

Nuclear has the potential to provide clean, cheap energy for our country.

nuclear energy should have a large seat at the energy table

this seems like such a possible step forward

It seems to me to have so much promise for what this country needs right now, starting with jobs and economic vitality.

I mean, we are literally spending billions, billions of dollars in all sorts of different ways.

Absolutely. We have a great deal of that in a part of the country that I come from.