On the recordDecember 13, 2012
It's not profitable at this time for private industry to invest in such a new way of producing energy. There's no profit in it, so they won't do it. Government has the leadership and the vision to understand where we need to go, how we need to take our people into the future. We--the public policy apparatus, the government, we the people, the government being of us--have a responsibility not just to enhance short-term profits; we have a responsibility as a government to plan and prepare for the future of this great Nation. We also have an inherent responsibility to lead the world. We're all in this world together. We all are going to breathe the same air. We're all going to drink from the same pool of water that exists on this planet. So we being the greatest Nation in the world are really shirking our responsibility by reducing government down to the size where you can drown it in a bathtub. I think that's the analogy that Grover Norquist used. {time} 1400 If you did that, where would America be? How would we have built the Interstate Highway System?
