As Senator Warner so ably pointed out, the United States and our young men and women into conflicts over water and other critical resource shortages.

I think the record should show that we recognize the leadership being given by the President of the United States now on this issue.

I think the Senate is going to be the institution that can bring together the disparity of thinking.

But there is no greater honor that any person can have than to serve in this institution.

If we are smart, we will put a price on carbon.

This country is going to go on doing that.

We support doubling energy research and development on a series of mini-Manhattan Projects.

I hope that this Congress can reconcile its differences, find a common ground, provide a bipartisan solution to this issue.

This legislation is imperative. Absolutely imperative.

It will take, as Senator Warner pointed out, the industrialized nations to demonstrate leadership and a willingness to change.

If the American public, in a year or two, perceive that we're going it alone in the United States... the American public could pull a plug on this legislation.

Historically, this country has always helped the others. Our forces have marched forth from our shores hundreds of times since 1776, never to take a square foot of anybody else's land, simply in the cause of freedom and in the cause of…

This is one of the most complex issues that's ever been faced by the Congress of the United States.

We're talking about a cap-and-trade system, and the magnitude of that could well exceed the current markets.

I just think that this is the time that Congress has got to forcefully lead.

I think it's essential that part of this climate change legislation--energy--slash energy--contain provisions on moving America ahead with nuclear energy.

the President, I think, has done a very credible job in showing leadership on this issue

I firmly believe the United States must take a leadership role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

There's no silver bullet to solve these challenges of economic security, energy security, and national security.

Severity of the drought in that whole part of Africa has precipitated so much of this instability, certainly Somalia's.

We've got to start, we've got to jump out front, and we've got to lead.

we also feel very strongly that there is a need for a national strategy to help guide the nation through these very difficult tradeoffs and choices

the severity of those missions, the complexity, and the stress on the Armed Forces is directly correlated to how much we can achieve or not achieve, now and tomorrow, by way of reducing greenhouse gases and the cause for this instability…

But, that All-Volunteer Force is fragile, like everything else in life.

New climate conditions, new geographic realities, changes in economic and commercial circumstances, and pressures of migrating populations, all will test old alliances.