"I also find that in very rural areas, very small towns, we also have a problem where people do not even want to speak about being a victim of abuse."
"Vermont is showing the Nation that we do not need nuclear but that we can in fact rely on energy efficiency and sustainable energy."
"I think there is overwhelming distrust of the plant."
"I in fact strongly support the bipartisan decision of the Vermont State Senate, which under Vermont law voted 26 to 4, not a close vote, not to extend the operations of Vermont Yankee beyond 2012."
"That isn't going to happen."
"In all due respect, a higher level of inspection. People are leaking a possible cancer causing product, and your response was to do a higher level of inspection. I think most Americans would not be sa..."
"Then why did we spend $7 billion looking at Yucca?"
"We have spent an enormous amount of money under the premise that we needed a national repository. We don't have one."
"Thank you, Senator Alexander."
"we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth, far higher than most of the European countries; and we end up with more people in jail than any other country."
"Do you think, as a nation, we really take intellectual development seriously?"
"Many of the kids who are coming into school are already--especially from low-income families--already pretty far behind."
"How do we turn that around to say that, 'If some kid wants to study hard and become an engineer, you know what, that's pretty cool?'"
"I don't think that any of us fully appreciate the far reaches of poverty on children."
"Do we appreciate, and are we inculcating our young kids with, the understanding that intellectual development is a good idea, in addition to being a great basketball player?"
"The President called the law misguided. He said it violates the basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans."
"This is due in no small part to Congress' own actions to dedicate resources to the border."
"I question whether some resolution could be found using the current footprint of the part of entry."
