Well, I don't see how it is in the interest of the taxpayer to only get 8 percent of the company for $4 billion when another entity gets 55 percent for $6 billion.

The purpose at the time was to step back from a catastrophe of unpredictable proportions.

I think we are going to find we make a little money here for the taxpayers overall.

I think you ought to take credit for it worked.

The recession is technically over.

Although our community has benefitted enormously from energy development, our list illustrates that the costs of maintaining infrastructure and public services have outstripped our ability to fund these necessities.

I certainly stand ready to do that.

Thank you both for all of the efforts underway in Pakistan to help the refugees.

we need to make sure that we are getting the most for our money.

foreign assistance is critical in promoting U.S. interests across the globe.

it is one of our best and most important nonmilitary instruments of power.

As we are thinking about how we look at our foreign aid efforts and revise them for the future, how should we be factoring climate change in and coordinating with what we need to do in that area?

One of the things that I've been reading about the cause of so many of these dramatic fires that we've seen in recent years is that climate change has had an impact.

this is something that we've got to address.

it's very clear, I think, to people in New Hampshire, that this is a challenge that we face, and we'd better respond to it.

I guess the concern that I have, particularly right now, and given the urgency of what we need to do, is whether or not--given our commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, if we have the capacity to engage our military in this fight.

I think it makes sense to have a fund that we can use because obviously this problem is not going to go away.

Most people think of our big forests all being out West, but actually the three most heavily forested states in the country are in the East.