I think much of what we did was a punt to you guys.

Is there a pressure, though, to define what has occurred here in such a way that you may end up in the short term making a piece of legislation look good?

To sort of end this colloquy--and I know Senator McCain and Senator Menendez wish to speak--I fully support every comment that has been made by the Senators from Connecticut and South Carolina. I am not associating myself with the comments…

Sometimes what happens around here, Mr. President--and it happened in Libya, when we passed a resolution at 9 o'clock one night by unanimous consent and somebody over at the State Department decided that was an authorization for force…

I wanted to speak for a moment today about the vote we are going to have this afternoon on the Federal Reserve Board members who have been nominated. I have met both of these individuals, and I plan to vote for them today at noon. But I…

First of all, we have two things on the floor that are being discussed right now, and I know this is confusing probably to the people in Tehran, but the fact is I agree that Senator Menendez and Senator Kirk have done a great job. I am on…

this is really a pipe dream unless you have a coal facility right beside an oil well

I've always thought it was a pretty hokey idea.

we have tremendous strengths in this Nation that allow us to be competitive over the long haul

we might as well say that to the places in Appalachia and Wyoming... you need to be planning on a very different future

It seems to me that as a Nation for us to be competitive what we would do is focus on the resources and strengths that we have.

I appreciate--I respect your tenacity.