Whether it, in fact, satisfies the public I think is a whole different question. It's very late in the game, I think too late.

We really ought to be looking at nuclear.

But, on energy, there's no excuse, none, for the Democrats not to have a comprehensive plan they can get behind.

That's very dangerous for Republicans this November.

I believe that this president ought to be looking at a serious new plan, which says: Look, I can't bring prices down in the -- in the -- in the near term, but I sure as heck am not going to be willing to stand here and do nothing in the…

But, you know, what we're facing, you know, this squeeze on Iran, because, as -- as -- as President Bush really pushes now hard on trying to get Iran to behave, Iran does hold the oil card.

It's rare that they do dig themselves out. We ought to understand that, once you get down this far, as Jimmy Carter learned, as -- as -- as George H.W. Bush learned, when he started crashing, and he couldn't -- he couldn't reverse it, it's…

There were a lot of us who believed that, argued that. And we were -- you know, we were cavalierly dismissed: Oh, that's a stupid idea.

Seventy-one percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country.

They have had an energy bill, you know, but it hasn't -- it wasn't a really serious energy bill. It wasn't a forward-looking energy bill.

I think timing is everything in politics, just as it in is love.