Barbara Boxer

Providing incentives for clean energy is a win-win for our country, because it helps to address the threat of global warming and it builds a foundation for long-term recovery and long-term prosperity.

There is not book written on this. We are writing it. We are writing one of the chapters today.

We have to hear everybody's views. We have to see where people are coming from. We have to judge what is best.

The heat that we felt in this debate is very strong. The reason is we all care so much about this country and its future.

The analysis by the Congressional Budget Office shows that the lowest quintile, the people you say are the most vulnerable, actually come out ahead by $40 due to the automatic refunds that people will be getting on their utility bills.

The bill we are putting together, the biggest priority is softening the blow on our trade sensitive industries and our consumers.

Any legislation Congress enacts must consider the impacts that costs will have on small and minority-owned businesses.

There are some people in the Senate that do not believe that it is really happening.

Climate change is a vital issue that must be addressed.

I remember that the thing about Ronald Reagan that everyone loved, you could not help but love, was this optimism that we are America, and we can do it.

History; history does not lie.

Every major nuclear company that I am aware of supports the Waxman-Markey bill.

I do not know why we argue about everything. That is the fact.

The Waxman-Markey bill modeling shows that more nuclear plants would be built under the Waxman-Markey bill than you are proposing.

Interruption is not appropriate, regardless of who is interrupting whom.

I just want to say to you, sir, and all of my panelists, how much I respect your views.

I think it is important, when we have a debate here, that we look at the diversity of opinion and who agrees and disagrees.

The NAACP approved a historic resolution addressing climate change legislation for the first time in the organization's history.

Jobs in the clean energy economy grew at a faster rate than total jobs in the Golden State between 1998 and 2007.

California small businesses' competitive edge over their counterparts is because while they are wasting money on inefficiency, we are spending it on employees building a better product.

I am stunned that you would say what you say coming from my home State.

I do not believe that there is any argument that we should be doing more and we should be aggressive in pursuing answers.

I have heard, and some people say, that we should not move ahead unless China moves. Well, I want you to know that China is moving full speed ahead right now, with or without us.

We actually have not had anyone that we know challenge the fact that in the Waxman-Markey bill, the poorest households actually come away with a surplus of $40 because of the rebates in the bill.

The only area of growth in jobs, the only one, has been clean energy.