"Coal produces twice the greenhouse gases per kilowatt as any other fuel."
"If we can drive down the price of oil and diminish the world's dependence upon the Middle East, we might avoid the next Iraq war and the environmental degradation that that involves."
"Last century the high-water mark for the NSC was Kissinger. Everything we complain about now was probably more true then, in terms of the NSC."
"So, what we need to do is say not how can we possibly get the most important Presidential advisor on foreign policy to come into this room but how can we write an authorizing bill in this room that be..."
"To tie the President's hands and say that we have to continue these sanctions... makes the bill more unwieldy."
"We should recognize that we often support not territorial integrity but self-determination, and we are often somewhat inconsistent on this."
"This makes as much sense as a baseball league where the umpire is selected and paid by one of the teams."
"Those millions of displaced people and hundreds of thousands of deaths could not occur if Assad didn't have allies."
"I have had the regulators here and I begged them and implored them to allow banks to make prime plus eight loans."
"If I could buy stock in all the garages I would sell the stock in the whole Dow."
"What if we cut half of all aid to Pakistan until Dr. Afridi and his family is here in the United States, what would be the reaction of the Pakistani Government?"