The greater use of libraries to deliver workforce services is a great idea.

I hope that you do not take away from this particular room any new doubts about the quality of the science that supports, I think, highly legitimate concerns about climate change.

I cannot think of an area in my personal life where I would refuse to act until 100 percent certainty was achieved.

I think if we do not take action the judgment of history will be extremely harsh.

There was a book called Merchants of Doubt written about the public relations and propaganda effort to raise doubt in order to create political maneuvering room for these industries.

I think Neville Chamberlain's Willful Blindness has justly earned the opprobrium of history.

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I think it is important for us to foster within the government but also outside of the government the ability of multiple agents to make a judgment on this.

if you do not have an authoritative institution supported by data doing that, then the problem I think you will have is that the next time it will be something different.

I don't sense there is a mutually exclusive sort of agenda here.

I want to thank you all for excellent testimony, thought provoking, and also for your advancing this issue.

Thank you for your leadership on this and so many other issues involved in banking and other challenges facing the country.

I think we are all focused on finding the best way to maintain higher levels of common equity.

They have proven that the last few months rather aggressively.

Last, I just want to say how pleased we are that we learned last week that Senator Reed introduced S. 3005, the National Institute of Finance Act of 2010.