I made very -- very, very carefully evaluations that we wouldn't raise any taxes.
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I never thought they would come to an agreement and use a dual path, and basically recognizing with this administration, working with President Biden's administration and working with Chuck Schumer.
Pat's a good man and good friend of mine. I'm sorry he's not going to be running again and he's leaving the Senate.
I think Susan Collins is my very dear friend, and we work almost on everything together.
I never told anybody that I wasn't going to do something.
This is going to do -- take care of that, because this is aggressively producing more energy to get more supply to get the prices down.
I have never changed at all. This is fighting inflation.
If I had a chance to fix the energy policy of the United States of America, and I didn't do it, shame on me.
I never thought this would come to fruition. I never spoke with anybody about it, any of my colleagues.
This is fighting inflation. This is all about the absolute horrible position that people are in now because of the inflation costs.
I think that we all have to come back to what our purpose of being in Washington for and who we're really working for. We're not working for any party. We're not working for any political idealism. We're working for basically, right now, a…
Well whatever -- whatever the voters, whatever the voters choose. I can't decide what's going to happen in Kansas or California or Texas. I really can't. I've always taken the approach, 'whoever you send me, that's your representative, and…
I've always said the best politics is good government.
If you want to get the gasoline prices down, you've got to produce your way out of it.
I'm just not going to be responsible for inflaming the inflation rates. I'm just not going to do it.
I think people are sick and tired of politics, Chuck. I really do.