"How much do you think it will cost the American taxpayer, for us to convince the American people, frankly just bribe the American people, to get rid of a gas car and drive an electric car?"
"You just think we ought to keep throwing money at it until we hit the jackpot."
"When I go back to my people and say your electricity costs have gone up 30 percent, but it is for a good cause."
"We all want clean air, we all want bright water. We all want to eat and we all want to live indoors, okay."
"Despite what the Princeton professor thinks, we do not have unlimited money. This is not Princeton."
"I love driving an electric car. I think they are really cool."
"Now if you believe that Vladimir Putin is going to spend $250 billion for--for climate change, then you never owned your own home."
"That means we've spent $2 trillion more than we took in, right?"
"$28 trillion. What percentage of GDP is that?"
"Yeah. So I get it, we make these distinctions between mandatory spending and discretionary spending, but it's really out of the same pot."
"Look me in the eye and tell me you really think the United States Congress is going to allow Social Security to be cut?"
"Well, damn looks to me like we better do something."