"We believe the anti-ESG bills are anti-free market and anti-free enterprise."
"I am sorry to say, perpetuates concerns that regulators focused on climate-related financial risk will, in fact, politicize credit allocation, assurances notwithstanding."
"Your assurance that your increased focus on climate-related financial risk will not discourage lending by banks to legal businesses certainly looks to us, some of us, like a distinction without a diff..."
"It is a tremendous responsibility. It is a tremendous duty. I still pinch myself every day that I get to do this."
"I co-led legislation with Congressman Waltz to fast-track U.S. weapons sales to India."
"We have long cautioned Pakistan about. And, we have said buyer beware."
"The party of Ronald Reagan, the party of Milton Friedman, is afraid to defend capitalism."
"I don't understand why anyone would say this is about assessing climate risk. Increasing energy prices does not stabilize the economy."
"If ESG is capitalism, why do we need the government to interfere in the free market?"
"You vilify entire industries simply because they are politically unsavory, in your opinion."
"It is kind of like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in 1964 when he was asked to describe his test for obscenity. He said, 'I know it when I see it.'"