Let's get this straight. So what we're going to do is, we've got a hole in the ocean that's pouring out this really sticky, yucky oil. I mean, we're counting on BP to clog that up. We don't really have that good of a solution on the…

Gentleman, you have illustrated the very point that I was trying to make. You instinctively think in terms of fixing the problem, not fixing blame. And you're a member of the Armed Services Committee, along with myself, and I don't know if…

You know, the thing that strikes me is most people that I know--I am an engineer. Engineers are kind of geeks anyway, but we have such a predictable sort of thought pattern, and that is, now we've got this great big hole that we've just…

I think it was 140,000 direct jobs. These are not the barbers and the restaurateurs and stuff. This is just the hard jobs that it's going to kill.

This then resulted in Republicans in the House passing a bill. Where's it go then? We sent it to the Senate. What happened in the Senate? You needed 60 votes to pass it. And so what happened? The Democrats killed this in the Senate, just…

You know, the funny thing is that we need to learn something from history, and the Democrats have got something they could learn from. It's Henry Morgenthau. He was the Secretary of the Treasury under FDR. They had a recession, and by his…

So did this plan, first of all, stop the oil that's coming out of the floor of the ocean?

Yes, your whole idea about little Lord Keynes and his idea about spending one's way into prosperity strikes me about like grabbing your boot loops and trying to fly around the room, you know?

This doesn't say Rush Limbaugh here. This says: The New York Times. This is the New York Times. Not exactly a conservative newspaper. September 11, 2003, the headline is: The Bush administration today recommended the most significant…

You're a pilot. I think we used this analogy the other day on the floor, because I remember as a kid the biplanes and the early days of flight. My science teacher flew glider planes and designed some of the glider planes that were used in…

Now wait a minute. Let's get this straight. This is a little confusing. A panel of, more or less, experts is put together. They're asked to come up with a recommendation. They come up with a recommendation, and the administration says…

And that tradition very much reflected the mindset of my parents' generation, the people that fought World War II. My father is 89 and was with Patton in the Army. But there was a general way of thinking in that generation. And the mindset…