Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I stand with my great colleague and a great champion of this energy renaissance--probably the greatest champion of the energy renaissance here in the Senate, the Senator from Louisiana. I wish to speak first about the election. I think all of us have had some time now to reflect, and I think the clearest message this entire body, as well as the entire U.S. Congress, received is: Stop fighting. Get your work done. I don't think it could have been any clearer. We have an opportunity today to demonstrate we got that message, not in a partisan way, but in a bipartisan way--in a nonpartisan way--to say: We heard you loud and clear. It is time to do the job we were sent here to do, and that is to move legislation which moves this country forward. Senator Landrieu has expounded on the great opportunity of this energy renaissance, not just for this country but for the entire world. So let's start with what is happening in North Dakota. We have had an explosion of oil and gas production. In fact, we have rapidly moved to second place in this country in oil production. We produce oil from oil shale. What does that mean? It means nothing if we can't move the oil. It means nothing if we can't get this product to the refineries and this product to market. We can produce all the oil we want, but part of what we need to address as we look at an energy infrastructure is how we move energy products.…”