"Can you imagine a balanced budget today?"
"I do hope, without getting into a long discussion about this, that you will commit to trying to meet these statutory deadlines."
"Your measure of success will be sort of an unusual one, which is not how popular you are but how unpopular you are among your Cabinet colleagues."
"It's critical for our energy security, certainly to have enriched uranium for our power plants."
"We want to be sure it's going to be done in an environmentally safe way."
"I think we need right now to focus on that issue."
"We have legislation... to close that gap, to give the President the authority to do what he says he wants to do."
"Many of us across the political spectrum have urged reconsideration of this decision."
"There is one major gap, as you know, and you and I talked about it. It does not apply to independent agencies."
"I think they are less than 10 percent--in fact, less than 6 percent, I think."
"We want to have access to it for things like soybeans and corn, beef and pork."