We are engaging in what will be this generation's version of the space race, an energy race to provide the technologies that will power the 21st century.

Investors across America... want to join in, but they need leadership from Washington, DC.

if you do the Waxman-Markey bill, it is going to cost jobs.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you to the panel. You have endured a lot here, and I think it has been a very, very good discussion.

The biggest bullet we have got is putting a price on carbon and a cap on emissions.

When we send a long-term steady signal to the marketplace that we are going to put a price on carbon and favor the innovative energy that does not rely on it, we unleash enormous, you will unleash enormous market forces.

I believe the naysayers have it exactly backwards. In fact, we have been unilateral in our failure to act.

We have not taken decisive action in this area.

The economic challenges we face as a nation have resulted in increased fraud and consumer scams.

Farmers and ranchers and foresters face, I think, dire threats from global warming.

Greater cooperation among Federal and state officials will be necessary to combat those who seek to take advantage of people in this current economic climate.

The vision I think most of us have is that through putting a price on carbon, we move ourselves in a new direction.