"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."
"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..."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We do a pretty good job regulating ourselves. And we haven't had one incident or anybody in the country that we can show that has contaminated any water."
"But I have, in my experience, every time the government gets involved in it they seem to make it a lot worse."
"Ma'am, when we say 'all-of-the-above energy,' we are attacking coal, so I don't buy that."