"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty. Therefore, we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must act anew and think anew, and then we shall save our country."
"That is a long time."
"Why does it take so long before you get to the posting? Why does it take 120 days?"
"One of the problems with our energy markets today is that it favors today cost and does not take into account capital costs."
"Well, if there is anything we have learned over the last 20 years, it is that we have to think the unthinkable."
"But now let me ask a question you may know the answer to, and that is, what is the cost of maintaining or life extension of an existing nuclear plant per megawatt?"
"I hope we are learning something from this experience."
"There are places in the country that are at least interested in considering hosting one--this site. Is that correct?"
"You'd think that we'd learn from Europe's dependency on Russian gas that this is a similar thing that we really need to address as a matter of policy."
"I hope that the Intelligence Community can provide some more-detailed analysis of the migration risk, which I see as one of the real challenges of the next 10 or 15 years."
"I just learned the salary cap is the President's salary. Nobody in the Federal Government can make more than the President."