"President Obama listened to differing views of American citizens and made a responsible decision."
"For a year I have been asking a simple question: Who benefits from this extraordinary Congressional intervention in the regulatory process?"
"Now, we wanted to find out what interest the Koch Industries had."
"We used to have a party in this country called the Know Nothings, and the people that are pushing this bill want us to know nothing about this pipeline except what the proponents want us to know."
"So now they have come up with a bill. This is a remarkable bill. This bill says--I wish people would read it."
"Now, we have attempted to do something about that, but the majority party has fought us tooth and nail on this."
"I want to know why Koch would tell the U.S. Congress one thing and the Canadian government the exact opposite."
"They have been going way out on a limb to get this pipeline approved, even to the point where a tax cut for middle class Americans and unemployment benefits and money for physicians was--a bill was he..."
"Michael McMasters, Wall Street investor, testified before Congress repeatedly that speculators are pushing prices well beyond what the supply and the demand warrant."
"If this were done on an aggressive schedule, a new route could be approved by October of 2012 at the earliest."
"No, sir, we feel that we do need the time that Mr. Linder had put out in his estimate."