Ed Markey

You cannot preach temperance from a barstool. You got to have a plan and we do not have a plan.

If we do not pass this climate package right now, there is going to be a lot of crocodile tears that are going to be shed in another 3 or 4 years saying, oh, how did we get in this situation where China now controls all these additional…

A vision without funding is a hallucination.

We are stalling on passing a bill that could create a clean energy revolution in our country.

I have personally been banned from the Philippines for speaking out in support of those who have shone a light on the Duterte government abuses.

This subcommittee is going to continue to work to shine a spotlight, but using your lives, using your work, in order to accomplish that goal so that repression, the compromise of freedom, of free speech, of the press wherever it may exist…

I still have significant hope that we will be able to go back to a robust democratic system if the right steps are taken now.

I think that is part of the reason the solution really has to be with communities, how do we bring democratic norms back to a more robust place.

Can you talk a little bit about Facebook in the Philippines?

Senator Gardner and I, back 3 years ago, we were able to pass the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act, which actually resulted in an appropriation of $210 million a year for 5 years from 2019 through 2023, to encourage democratic institutions…

That has been your lives. That is what you have been doing, and we very much are in awe of the lives you have lived.

When America is involved in the world, the world is a safer, freer, and more prosperous place.

I think it is a very important lesson to be learned from the experience of Hong Kong that the United States and other democratic governments have to take steps right now and to take concrete steps into protecting the freedom of expression…

I think we are still at a point where we can restore that public sphere, but it requires your help.

I fear that Xi Jinping will take a page from Putin's playbook for conquest to try to invade and exert dominance over the independent, sovereign nation of Taiwan.

The leadership that you have provided, not just for the Philippines, but for the whole world is absolutely immeasurable.

Around the world, freedom of expression, one of the underpinnings of democracy, is under attack.

We cannot protect democracy at home or abroad if we do not protect the right to nonviolent self-expression and freedom of the press.

Voting is a vital way to hold government accountable.

We talk a lot in this body about standing up to repression.

That doesn't fully get factored in at all, or it doesn't get factored in at all. They want to pretend it is so; that is just some, like greenhouse gases are an externality, they really shouldn't be counted.

Use the ones you have or lose them, give them back to us, before you start asking for more leases.

If they wanted to drill, they should have been drilling.

If we are going to break our dependence upon Putin's dirty energy oil, the oil companies have had years to live up to their promises of affordability and security.

If we had the same kind of predictability for 100 years, I think we would feel really good about our future in renewable industry.