This new clean energy market is a rapidly emerging market and it is also a potentially enormous market.

We were the leader in the world... and now it is clearly over in Asia.

You have been to Rhode Island to visit Senator Reed and myself and you are aware of our circumstances, how difficult the State budget is there, how difficult our unemployment situation is there.

Are we condemned to a race to the bottom in which corporations end up paying essentially no share of our national revenues?

Social Security as a program is not actuarially at fault for the need that we will have to fund the cash needs.

If there is something that is sort of basic and American, it is that when you are dealing with somebody else, you ought to be able to get a person on the phone who can make a decision in your case instead of being stuffed into this…

It would be great to have also a high-speed rail moment, and there is no place that is more important than in the Northeast.

I think we all recognize that when, in the Eisenhower administration, we took a national move to high-speed road and built a national highway system, it was one of the best things ever done for our economy.

Health care consumes about 18 percent of America's GDP right now, and the closest country is at about 12 percent.

I support that.

You have had no comments from the field from our commanders who are working with these units questioning their combat efficiency.

I think this survey data complements the best proxy we have for this question, which is the experience of our closest allies.

this situation was bad a year ago. It is worse today, and it might get worse.

the model that worked before does not work any longer.

But what I am concerned about is that the people who will be left out are the mortgage holders who are struggling to stay in their homes--not the flippers, not those folks, but people who have seen one spouse lose a job, tuition increases…

Time is of the essence.

You are envisioning a regulatory solution initially which would use what authorities you have, which are substantial.

The legislative process, as we prove every day, unfortunately is slow.