"I am dropping the EV Fair Trade Act, which simply says, if you want to get a Federal check to subsidize your electric vehicle purchase, that's fine... it's going to be certified by the manufacturer not to involve constituents or components derived from slave labor."
"Your policies sound insensitive and mean to the most vulnerable people on earth, and I really detest that."
"The poorest folks in the world are lacking natural gas?"
"Energy infrastructure is an issue of promiscuity. I mean, you have to be permissive to allow the carbon economy to grow and lift more billions of lives out of poverty."
"That is a complete mischaracterization of what I just said. I am not being insensitive, and also----"
"We are shutting down oil leases, we are shutting down oil transport. We are shutting down the oil economy which includes many derivatives, many industries that many families can better themselves on."
"I live in a rural part of California, 18th highest poverty level in the country, where they have taken the water off the farms and my families simply can't afford it."
"we have got an administration that is administering the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act funds to a great extent out of a White House office, not through formulas, not through DOT grants solely, but literally ha..."
"we also have a very blue State government. And that doesn't bode well for red rural counties, in terms of getting our share."
"obviously, we can't haul anything on that in regard to ag products. We certainly need to keep priorities in line and remember that the local areas are really best suited to determine what their needs ..."
"this Cottonwood Decision has caused a state of paralysis in managing our Federal forests by requiring forest plans to go through new ESA consultations every time a new species is listed."