"Does either one have an idea of where we are going to be in 20 years, the shortfalls we are going to have or the infrastructure needs that we are going to be facing?"
"Before we can get a project--we have to plan today before we can get a project. It is 3 to 5 years before we can get to see the dirt start moving."
"if we don't figure out a way to actually capture that, then we are literally just doing what Government continues to do and we just put a Band-Aid on it when we really need stitches."
"there is no way that is actually going to go anywhere. I mean, we are going to take more money out of DOD when they are already struggling with the cuts that we have already proposed to them, and we a..."
"I think, clearly, the difficulty of this problem is going to require Congress and the administration, House and Senate, Republicans and Democrats, to work together."
"But, at the same time, that is what this country has continued to have done over and over again is look to our President for some type of leadership, and we have yet to actually see that."
"the idea that you have been in the private sector, you understand about leadership, and you understand how important leadership is."
"But what we continue to see from the President and his type of leadership is that he is literally blindly leading his ideals down the road."
"He says, 'I have job packages, I have job packages,' but yet his war on coal is going to punish exactly those people that he says on one side of his mouth he is trying to protect."
"I find it hypocritical that they are going to punish the coal industry because of an ideological idea that he has."
"But with all due respect, this President hasn't employed anybody. And so I don't know if he understands the ripple effect that is going to happen."
"Ma'am, when we say 'all-of-the-above energy,' we are attacking coal, so I don't buy that."