"I could not be prouder of the men and women who serve, and this Nation owes an enormous debt of gratitude to the Army."
"I strongly support Secretary Gates' decision, which includes launching a new Army combat vehicle modernization program."
"An increase in end strength is necessary to take pressure off our deploying forces."
"We cannot support plans pushed by Northeast and West Coast States that will hit coal-dependent Missouri and Midwest manufacturing jobs especially hard."
"Missouri families are suffering right now. Missouri families face foreclosure from the housing crisis and recession job loss."
"With new leadership, I am confident we can wake up the EPA and the CEQ to their critical mission: to protect human health and the environment."
"The White House Council on Environmental Quality needs to reassert itself as a key advisor to the President on environmental matters."
"EPA must listen to its professional staff and independent experts, not lobbyists."
"We have an agency and a set of laws that are already in place to do what must be done."
"EPA works for the American people. They don't work for a President, they don't work for us, they work for the people."
"The course of action chosen by the next Administrator will indeed determine whether people and resources are reasonably protected or, to the contrary, whether overzealous regulations pull us deeper in..."