John Kerry

I'd ask unanimous consent that the list--the OECD broadband statistics list, which makes us number 15--be placed in the record.

I don't think any child--I don't think anybody in this committee believes that any child's education ought to suffer because their parents can't afford broadband.

What was once a novelty is now an economic and fundamental necessity.

I remember, back in 2004, President Bush promised that the United States was going to commit to this and that--the Administration would--and that we were going to get all of America access to broadband.

I hope we can act soon, and I for one have not lost hope that buoyed by a success on health care reform.

We can reach to the clean energy future that beckons, pave the way for jobs and energy independence at home.

The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act is key to unshackling America from implicit subsidies to dirty foreign fuels.

As we move to new, strong, robust energy policy in our country, we should do so in a way that does not devastate the economy.

I strongly support developing a national energy policy that will help us to become more diversified.

We need an energy bill that can send clear market signals that both short-term and long-term investment in energy technologies will be rewarded.

I believe we will attract private investment and spur a new industrial revolution in America.

It's time for the Senate to lead.

Killing a Senate bill is not success.

Failure to act comes with another cost.

The evidence is now clearer than ever before that a voluntary approach won't get the job done.

But we can't and we won't do those things if we don't pass aggressive, forward looking climate and energy legislation.

Today, we have an opportunity to lead the world in rolling back the urgent threat of climate change.

If we are wrong, we will have created more jobs, become more energy independent...

I think as public people we have a responsibility to try to respond.

If it goes over 2 degrees Centigrade, we risk catastrophic changes to the climate, to our crops, to our water supply.

Almost every study that looks at the costs does not factor in the impact of energy efficiency or the impact of new technology.

There is a reason that the leaders of the G20 in Italy recently affirmed that we cannot let the temperature of the planet rise more than 2 degree Centigrade.

The science, Senators, is more definitive than ever. The science is screaming at us to take action.

We will create jobs that cannot be exported, because we will create our energy here at home, which makes America stronger and which in fact strengthens our competitive posture.

I believe, and the vast majority, overwhelming numbers of scientists and peer reviewed studies across the globe, leaders of countries across the globe, presidents, prime ministers, finance ministers, environment ministers, all across the…