I think we as a Nation, if we are to address not only our national security needs but our economic concerns, have to do something about this.

That is why I have been a strong supporter of nuclear power.

It seems to me we are cutting off our nose to spite our face when we abandon nuclear or limit what is a genuine renewed interest in the use of nuclear.

I think the fact that the administration has not taken that off the table probably undermines the ability to draw in people like Senator Alexander and myself.

I am also concerned about climate change, and I think we should try to move away from carbon-based production of energy.

The problem is that that effort to try to stabilize the economy has been used as a straw dog for the purposes of expanding the size of the government in the out years exponentially.

I do not want to debate Yucca.

Which is not accomplished under this budget.

We need stimulus badly, but we need it in the right places.

This is utterly unsustainable.

If there is any doubt about the importance of facing up to these long-term imbalances, the news that was spread across the front page of the New York Times today on 'China Losing Taste For Debt From U.S.' ought to be a warning signal to us…

I do greatly respect much of what has been said by President-elect Obama on how they intend to address this issue relative to the stimulus package.

I think it is critical that on the second item, which is the spending--we make sure that all that spending that we undertake... be one-time events.

Our Nation's economic future will remain at risk until we confront the long-term fiscal challenge before us.

Those two numbers lead inevitably to disaster and cannot be tolerated for an extended period of time.

It is my attitude, and I think it is the attitude of our party on our side of the aisle within the Senate, that we want to be cooperative here because we realize the seriousness of the situation.

I think we should heavily tilt the stimulus package toward investment-based activity--you know, bridges, roads, infrastructure, fiberoptics, whatever--that is going to give us a return.

There are a lot of ideological issues here. You know, as a conservative, I obviously have an inherent dislike of having the Government expand dramatically and having, obviously, deficits of this size.