Tom Rice actually said...

"Now who here on this panel can look at me with a straight face and tell me that that is the best way we can use our limited resources?"

"You can educate people from now until doomsday. You can get everybody a Ph.D. But if, when they get out of school, there is no job for them, you haven't really accomplished much."

"If we want to solve this problem, we have to get our economy growing again."

"I would like to discuss an issue that is of great importance to the Southeast: providing appropriate clarity for the nuclear production tax credit."