"We are going to have that choice between my colleagues who say, do nothing, the party of nope, versus do something, the party of hope."
"And we have been challenged by our President. I couldn't be more proud of this Committee."
"If we decide that more and more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is fine and it was just great 50 million years ago, when there was three to four times as much, I mean, if we decide that, and we don't..."
"I could tell you in California, this is important, that the preliminary analysis from our bill there addressing global warming is going to avoid 400 premature deaths, 11,000 incidences of asthma and l..."
"If anything we need to do, it is to leave this planet in the condition as good as we got it from our parents."
"I am pleased today to express my support for the confirmation of Dr. Jane Lubchenco as the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."
"I am pleased today to express my support for the confirmation of Dr. John Holdren as the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy."
"If President Obama wants to build a spirit of trust and accountability in the Central Intelligence Agency, he has picked exactly the right person."
"We need a national standard according to the courts."
"I think we're all heartbroken, and frightened, and disturbed about what has happened, and what the situation is on the ground."
"I don't think any nation--I don't care how large or small, weak, strong, or rich you are--could live with rockets coming across."
"My plea for today...is that we can have not just a 24-hour cease fire, or a two-day, or a 4-day cease fire--although every hour of quiet is good--we'd want a seriously long cease fire that leads us so..."