Richard Lugar actually said...

"The sooner we act, it reduces the probability that we have adaptation costs and issues in the future."

"96 percent of our electricity comes from coal, and we need to make the transition to the low carbon world without having to pay twice for the transition."

"The key to that is really the same way we did it under the Clean Air Act amendments in 1990, where we adopted cap and trade."

"It's this kind of individual that conceivably can bring together a piece of work that, in our democracy, with all the complexities, and 50 States, and so forth, might happen."