Political Quotes

Mr. President, I rise today in support of Christopher T. Hanson's nomination to serve an additional 5-year term as a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which he has chaired for several years. I want to begin by saying a few words…

Thank you for your passion, and I would ask that we spend the rest of this day dealing with this and seeing if we can't work this out.

We help make the rules for the country, and we do not do this by ourselves.

If I had known--as you know, the breadth of the issues that we cover in this Committee are enormous. It is impossible for any of us to fully master each of them.