"What they want from us and from the President is some vision and some leadership about the future."
"to say it is the President's policies is just poppycock, as far as I am concerned."
"I think it is criminal that we are not doing it."
"The top five oil companies earned $137 billion in profits last year and gas prices are rising."
"As long as the U.S. is heavily dependent on oil, we will be vulnerable to price volatility in the global oil market."
"The fundamental problem isn't that we are not drilling enough or even that we are too inefficient."
"It is vital that we are paying attention to this question."
"The Republican mantra is that we need to 'drill, baby, drill.' This slogan may sound good, but it is based on a complete fiction."
"We can't afford to take money from taxpayers struggling to pay their mortgages and fill up their tanks and hand it to oil companies making billions in profits."
"The idea that our problem is insufficient oil production is a fantasy, and I believe it is a very dangerous fantasy."
"The President has called for eliminating the $4 billion in tax breaks for oil companies, and instead investing it in alternative energy."