Tom Carper actually said...

"I want to thank you specifically, Senator Carper, for doing everything you have done to advance our cause in Washington."

"I think Senator Alexander has already said this in so many words, but just in the last several weeks to have heard what the President said on the floor of the House of Representatives in the State of ..."

"I will certainly do if I am confirmed is to make that point very clearly to people operating nuclear power plants that it isn't the point that it is not hurting anyone."

"What we can't afford are mistakes that will derail this renaissance in nuclear power."