"Americans are hurting. When the cost of fuel goes up, everything goes up: a loaf of bread, a pair of shoes, a car, everything."
"We need help. We need the Gulf opened up. And the bureaucratic games that we are playing are not playing out well in the state of Alabama."
"The people in Alabama and the people in this nation are frustrated, and they are mad."
"When the environment takes preference over human life, and that is where we are at."
"We have to start planning much further out than the next election. And that is the problem we are having here in Congress."
"If there's a need, let's build them."
"I call on you to let us know what you need to defend this country, because that is all of our goals, Republicans and Democrats, defend this country."
"I'm personally tired of a defense budget process that does not supply our troops or meet our global defensive needs."
"Our withdrawal of Afghanistan indicates a completely avoidable failure of leadership and has made the world and our homeland less safe rather than more safe."
"restricting oil and gas production in federal waters will actually result in decreasing the total consumption of oil in the U.S."
"I challenge you to go to the Black community in Selma, Alabama. I challenge you to go there and tell them that they are going to have to buy a $60,000 electric car."
"Durability and longevity of a new rule will be a very high priority."