"if we do too much too quickly, we are going to drive people offshore."
"I think this is, quite frankly, a reckless move at a time when our nation is very much at threat."
"It is never going to happen unless it is bipartisan."
"the politics around energy are sort of like agriculture politics. They do not break along party lines many times."
"the President spoke to the Congress a couple of weeks ago, he mentioned energy independence and climate change as two big issues for the administration, and he gave a list of solutions. He did not men..."
"your testimony, quite frankly, has been more reassuring than the budget and, quite frankly, it has been more reassuring to me than the President's speech to the Congress a couple of weeks ago in the a..."
"I want to applaud you for beefing up the environmental management budget so that people like South Carolina's Savannah River site, who have done some pretty aggressive things to reduce their waste foo..."
"the $50 billion to support a more aggressive loan guarantee program was taken out of the stimulus package."
"A hundred percent auction of the credits will, I think, make it very difficult for a heavy-energy-user manufacturers."
"The bottom line about the stress test is that we are going to put some of these banks under stress and see if they are adequately capitalized."
"I think the most important thing you can do is to reward it when it is done."