"The President has repeatedly as a candidate said that there will be pain in transition, that prices will skyrocket."
"Uncertainty is the enemy of growth, uncertainty."
"We must protect our environment. We must protect the fisherman. We must protect the tourism industry. We must have balance."
"a lease is not a permit."
"in this town, everyone is entitled to an opinion, but not facts."
"Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels of Europe."
"Americans have a right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent."
"In my opinion, this committee could have a much more significant and immediate impact on the price of gas if it stopped focusing solely on the oil industry's interest and started focusing on real effo..."
"The American people see an administration who said before they came to Washington that we need European oil prices."
"additional information could be used nefariously to create, 'a Nixonian-type enemy list.'"
"I think that we would be hubris for us to assume that we could do anything about the appropriation process of other funds."