Barbara Boxer

I believe that when we pass strong clean energy legislation that cuts our dependence on foreign oil and protects our children from pollution, we will also provide the impetus that will restore American leadership in the world economy.

I believe strongly that Thomas Friedman got it right in his book when he wrote that the ability to develop clean power and energy efficient technologies is going to become the defining measure of a country's economic standing…

We have a responsibility to protect our kids and our grandkids, not just ourselves.

No farmer that I know wants to be dependent on oil from people who don't like us.

The truth is the benefits of the program exceeded the cost by 40 to 1, resulting in more than $70 billion in human health benefits annually.

History has proven these people wrong, wrong, wrong.

President Obama says that the Waxman-Markey bill is a great start for us, and it will result in more nuclear power plants being built than you want.

I would like for the President to be half as interested in 100 nuclear power plants as he is in windmills.

The ravages of global warming is going to affect us

Yes, Senator, when you were gone, I talked about your plan.

The one thing I hope, Mr. Stallman, you will think about is the fact that we import so much foreign oil, and we are at the mercy of a lot of people that don't like us.

The marketplace is going to do it.

There were far more emissions reductions than were predicted and the costs, the actual costs, were five times lower than they were projected to be

The idea of cap-and-trade was created right here in this room years ago when we were fighting the problem with acid rain

I hope that we will also look at the roles that forests also provide.

I think this is a very exciting opportunity out there posed in the form of a challenge.

At the same time, it is essential that offsets in fact reduce emissions and that they can be monitored and verified.

This is the first of three hearings scheduled for this week to address vital aspects of our plan for legislation that will avoid the ravages of unchecked global warming, create clean energy jobs here in America, and reduce our dependence…

I want to welcome everyone on the panel. We will be addressing opportunities for businesses and sectors like ag and forestry in the fight against global warming.

Thank you so much. I just want to say to the other members of the panel that I have been called away for a very urgent meeting right now on the issue of global climate change.

They said that the Waxman-Markey bill was, and I am quoting them verbatim, 'designed to make fossil fuel more expensive.'

We know how much transportation means to you and to your State.

We need to put a market price on carbon and greenhouse gas emissions to reflect their true cost on our national security, our economy, and our environment.

I just want to say, before Secretary LaHood, you leave, and the Assistant Administrator, we are going to have this debate on Thursday because I am going to propose, I am sorry, tomorrow, I am going to propose an 18-month clean extension.

I so appreciate your leadership on this. You make common sense.