the point isn't always more money. The point is, a little more sanity in some of these requirements and rules and regulations.

I want to thank you, Chairman Dorgan, for your many years of dedication and commitment to the welfare of Indian people

That also is stunning to me, because those airplanes are flying with Continental's name on it.

I think that moving toward an electric drive future makes a great deal of sense for our country.

Let me thank the Senator from California, Mrs. Boxer, and certainly Senator Reid and others. This vote was very important. The question for the Senate and the Congress is when 25, 26 million people wake up in this country and go looking…

If we're trying to promote economic recovery here, why would we not make the investment here?

I think it's time for a public/private partnership so that the United States will be not only the place to develop the technology, but the place to implement it and commercialize it.

I guess all of you are betting on a future that many of us hope will exist, and it probably will only exist if we understand the need to change public policy to try to lead in that direction, as opposed to sitting around and waiting for…

We have before us a responsibility, a necessity to act to put our Nation on a pathway toward once and for all ending our dangerous dependence on petroleum and leaving a stronger, safer America in its place.

I think this investment can yield very significant results.

If the Government supports this new path, if it helps to build these concentrations of electrification that are so crucial to jumpstarting a new, national transportation system, then that is a game changer.

The question is whether we let things happen and perhaps do nothing to address these questions, or whether we decide, as a matter of public policy, to make things happen.