Steven Chu: “I believe that we should conduct R&D into technologies to reduce and recycle nuclear waste.”

Whether the investors are Republicans or Democrats did not enter into any decision as to whether we were going to fund the loan.

I cannot guarantee that everyone who is fracking is doing it that way, but certainly what appears to be is that a lion's share of the people are doing it responsibly.

We believe that that ATVM loans, for example, the loans to Ford and to Nissan, saved or generated many, many thousands of jobs.

Pound for pound, dollar for dollar, he felt that ARPA-E was the most effective use of government resources he has seen in a long time.