I believe the estimated cost of the acid ran program launched by former President George Herbert Walker Bush, I think they estimated the cost of the acid rain program, to be 50 percent higher than what it turned out to be.

I am for knowledge and against ignorance.

We are guilty of that, so we have some responsibility.

What we do is create a nurturing environment for job creation.

Guys like me, people who serve in these roles, we do not create jobs.

I have heard him talk about it in State of the Union Address and I have talked with people like Cass Sunstein.

I want to touch again on what you just said about all of the above. Because we have an all of the above energy policy, which I think is good.

We need some men and women around here with courage, political courage, to do what I think most of us know needs to be done.

That said, I think manufacturers in general support all the above discussion in terms of how to fund this as it relates to recognizing, back to the chairman's comments earlier, about the criticality of the infrastructure.

I have been thinking a lot about it, and I think the President has a proposal. I am not a big fan of repatriation, but the President has an interesting proposal and that could be part of an all of the above approach as well.

I think it demonstrates that the general public is willing to support this additional tax.

The real conflict is knowledge versus ignorance, and I urge you all to choose knowledge.

Regulations are important. We issue them for a number of reasons, including to better protect our health, our safety, our environment, and the economy.

I don't think it is an accident that what we regard as the golden age of the American economy in the last century coincided with when we were building the interState system.

Thank you. My staff, at my request, did some analysis. They found in States that have raised revenues for transportation, 90 percent of legislators who voted for a revenue increase won their primary, won their general election.

I think it was Andrew Jackson who used to say, one man with courage makes a majority.

Because frankly, we continue to lose ground against our major competitive countries, China in particular.

Our job is not to create jobs. My job as Governor was not to create jobs. Our job is to help create a nurturing environment for job creation.