"Most of the kids in California believe that the air pollution level right now in California is so much worse than it was when I went to high school, and I ask them that every single time. The fact is it is just the opposite. We have made dramatic progress in these last 20 and 30 years in terms of he..."
"What is the crisis that makes you move up the deadline at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to the American people?"
"We are going to waste hundreds of millions of dollars that could be used to actually buy the--make the capital investments that would cause real progress in the future."
"We just gave them $500 million and now they are going bankrupt. Well, that is $500 million that now has evaporated from being able to create real jobs someplace else."
"But I would hope you would be as concerned about the other people who are losing hundreds of millions of dollars in jobs because... of actions of the EPA and perhaps we will see who gets special favor..."
"Let us just note that there has been some progress made, but I don't think you can draw that to the $5 billion that we have given to the Palestinians."
"I believe the real peace will come, if it ever does--and if it does, it will be predicated on Israel giving up all of the settlements in the West Bank."
"$5 billion is a lot of money. I mean, this is a lot of money for the American people."
"Why are we giving money to people who have not even given up the concept that they are going to destroy Israel as it exists?"
"What are we using--or what are we spending all this money for, if it is not to promote peace?"
"Yes, Mr. Berman, there are some of us who would like to cut funds to the United Nations when those funds are not used to promote peace."