"To totally misquote Shakira, the math don't lie, and it is imperative that our lips don't either."
"Five hundred and fifty billion dollars a year really does distort those markets."
"If you distort markets as much as the International Monetary Fund says our markets are being distorted, we cannot fall back on this lazy assumption that efficient markets will allocate the capital."
"If we are not going to take those barriers away, then why are we--why bother innovating?"
"We have to stop delaying. That is an excuse."
"If I get elected 8 more times, fingers crossed, I will have as much experience in this line of work as I do in the energy sector."
"This is going to be a huge economic cost, and I think we all need to reach out to our cities..."
"the best way to predict the future is to create it."
"I introduced last year the Keep STEM Talent Act that is a rifle shot at the high skill thing."
"I was startled to see the broad support for a single-sector approach in this."
"I was wondering if you think there's a merit for us looking into that as a systematic way of not--of increasing the pie?"
"what is scientifically necessary is so far beyond what is politically possible. And that is a path to suicide."