"You claim that renewable energy is always expensive."
"And around here, there's an entire political party dedicated to protecting them as they pollute for free."
"The things I can control or the things that the United States can control are its emissions."
"It's pretty basic economics that negative externalities belong in the price, and therefore are a subsidy."
"I think this is another evidence-free effort to try to interfere with [energy] competition for their fossil fuel overlords."
"Political spending that is not transparent is corrupting."
"the Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court posited something that I have no disagreement with, which is, that if big political spending is not transparent, it is corrupting."
"So this combination of huge amounts of political money flowing into the system from big special interests kept secret from the American public, has dramatically added to the long-term difficulty of tr..."
"Mike, I would actually really like working with you on this. As you know, there's substantial overlap in our thinking and in our experience."
"I think there's an enormous opportunity here."
"One of the things that I have experienced in my time in the Senate is the extent to which Congress is responsive to big special interests and to extremely wealthy individuals."