"We are also at a very tenuous point that energy producers are a little tenuous on being able to invest into future plans."
"The more that we can hand back to the States, and the fewer things that we're trying to do from DC..."
"Like to keep it that way."
"As a general principle, though, and following up on Mr. Woodall's comments as well, as a general principle, if you subsidize something, you get more of it; if you tax something, you get less of it."
"Well, they would definitely have a pretty hard hit on it, on how they are going to handle it."
"I am kind of astounded by that to say, well, add a tax burden on them, which will cause them to drill less and to research less for things like IDCs and such."
"I just don't hear anyone that I am interacting with saying, you know, if we just get to $26 trillion in debt, I think we will be fine."
"My fear is right now we are more worried about balancing the budget and what effect that will have on our economy than we are about dealing with our debt."
"I see the other side of this, to say $26 trillion is a more frightening thing to me that balancing the budget is a frightening thing to me on that."
"When I came on January 5, this year's budget deficit was projected to be $1.4 trillion."
"What I am hearing are terms like sustainable deficits, that doesn't seem to be working towards getting it under control."
"For a lot of independent producers around the country, they have three to five employees."