"I admire your service and the quality of talent that you have attracted to your Department and your independence."
"I think there is a difference between national and Federal. National to me means States getting together, doing things."
"I think all of us on both sides of the aisle see the need for the 500-mile electric battery or the photovoltaic cell that is much more efficient."
"I was thinking of the Oak Ridge example."
"I personally believe we need and should have more nuclear power, especially if we are confronting the climate change issue."
"I believe that the greatest untapped resource in our country probably is the amount of electricity we already have at night that is unused."
"The chairman has constructed this hearing around the future of energy."
"Senator Murkowski has said that for the last 10 years a remote community in Alaska has considered the idea of a small modular reactor."
"Keep your mouth shut. You have no cards."
"Lyndon Johnson I think wanted to avoid that in an even more controversial set of legislations."
"I have supported abolishing secret holds and will again and was one of ten Senators to write the conferees in 2006 in saying do what we voted to do."