I strongly support the efforts of the Loan Programs Office to commercialize and deploy innovative new clean energy technologies.

I'm waiting for the moment that he, Ted Cruz, gets the nomination and then I will file that beautiful lawsuit saying that he is unqualified for the job because he is ineligible. Call me crazy but I think the president of America should an…

I think we should double our R&D budget everywhere on this topic.

The national labs are unique and irreplaceable. They must be a high priority in our budgetary decisions both now and in the future.

Why do we have a national lab system instead of taking the same amount of money and dispersing it through DOE to competitive grants open to everybody, presumably the best offeror?

China is currently on course to overtake the United States in actual R&D dollars spent sometime in the next decade.

The United States invests more than any other nation in research and development, yet when you put that investment in context as a percentage of our GNP, it becomes much less impressive.

Democracy still seems to function fairly well in Venezuela.

When we talk about foreign affairs, we are not talking about necessarily foreign affairs, something removed from us.

What we want above all is we want people to be able to reach their potential without being barred from that by discrimination.

It is our duty as human beings to fight it, to make sure that we stand with others who are being oppressed.