Clearly, if the middle class has more money to spend, that is economic.

My goal in Maine was that we would have the highest environmental standards in the country and the most timely, efficient and predictable environmental process.

the problem is us. It is not the process.

The difficult decisions today will be impossible 10 years from now.

The X factor in all of this, it seems to me, is growth.

Any permitting program that takes seven to ten years and costs $50 to $100 million is not a permitting program, it is an annuity for lawyers and consultants.

We are fighting over a smaller and smaller share of the budget.

The one thing this institution does really well is avoidance.

We are not talking about cutting environmental corners. We are talking about establishing a process that makes sense.

Changing the process is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Targeting our budget-balancing efforts on discretionary spending... is really missing the big picture.

We want to meet the needs, but we do not want to necessarily pay for them.

We really need to take cognizance of the fact that we are just not even talking about three-quarters of the budget.

It has always struck me as sensible for our Federal Government to adopt a similar method.

There is a famous saying of Golda Meir that Moses tramped all over the Middle East for 40 years and settled in the one place without oil.

There is no question in my mind that rooftop solar, storage, conservation, demand response is going to happen in this country sooner than we think.

A timely and predictable, environmental permitting process is, in no way, inconsistent with environmental protection.

I am gravely concerned about unlimited exports adversely affecting prices in our domestic market.

It is a pleasure to be here, yet I must say it is a daunting experience to sit on this side of the table.

I rise today to speak to the bill that is before us with regard to the Iran negotiations. I wish to address two fundamental and major segments of this process. One is the process and the other is the substance of the agreement which…

He has got an 80 percent approval rating in Russia principally because of nationalism and his strong man image.

I am trying to figure out whether this is the Sudetenland in 1938 or Sarajevo in 1914.

I think we have got to think and put ourselves in his shoes.

This is one of the most far-sighted, in fact, visionary statutes passed in the last 100 years.

This whole discussion, to me, is a great big example of the failure of Congress to adequately address the country's needs.