"The Arab Spring would have happened anyway."
"Is there a way to centralize this so that we don't have two or three different agencies and 18 different programs sending all this out for the duplication?"
"Is a democracy possible without property rights acknowledged by a government in the protection of human rights?"
"I share the chairman and ranking member's goal and my vision is to make North America energy secure, energy independent in this region in the Western Hemisphere, to bring stability to the fuel prices."
"There is no reason, with our natural resources--correct me if I am wrong--that we should be importing oil from anybody outside of the Western Hemisphere."
"So 70 percent of that oil would stay here domestically and, you know, it is funny how many different things are out there."
"We don't want that driving our policies. Because now if we are using those products here, we are going to be banned from trading with Europe on that, and it is not based on science."
"What I would like to bring out in this hearing is clarification and the purity of science and the purpose of science and not have agendas driven by one side or the other."
"I would encourage you guys to get the results of that report out at soon as we can so we can bring some stability to the market."
"America is known around the world as a country with a global immigration policy of unenforcement."
"I want results."