Bob Bennett

the smartest investments that was made by the Federal Government was actually the chickens.

If, indeed, we can use the brackish water that is there to create energy, that is enormous because one of the primary challenges with respect to corn ethanol is the enormous amount of water that it uses.

And that can be the shift in mindset that can get us in the right direction.

But we have, as a government, as a people, we have come to regard CO2 as a pollutant, and your testimony here collectively says CO2 is a resource.

I still am baffled, the idea that the federal government is injecting money into an institution to help keep it solvent, and at the same time, the federal government is taking money out of the same institution in the form of taxes to make…

there is a systemic risk beyond just the safety and soundness of the bank, the function the bank performs.

we need more transparency, efficiency, and effectiveness, and this issue is a very good place to start.

The person who is responsible to make sure that everybody gets along, that everybody meets his or her deadlines, that things happen and they work--it is an enormously significant administrative challenge.

I still believe the issue of naked short selling is a genuine issue that too many people have said for too long does not really exist.

striking the balance between regulation that will find the Bernie Madoffs and get rid of them... and allowing the markets to work is, I think, philosophically your biggest challenge.

You are now in an atmosphere very similar to that atmosphere where the populist reaction to things is shut everybody down, and my only concern is that if we overreact and do shut everybody down, we make the recession longer, we hurt the…

Now, I was interested in the comment that you get significant increases, to use the business language, significant increases in productivity out of the troops if you alter the length of their deployment.

If we were to increase the number of nuclear plants, not just continue the current 20 percent, but if we were to say let us drive toward 30 percent or even 40 percent of American electricity generated by nuclear, how big a reprocessing…

My conviction is that we need to now say let us do reprocessing. Let us get into that business. Reverse the decision that Jimmy Carter made--factually, not just legally.

I am intrigued by the growing significance that 'irregular warfare' and so-called 'hybrid campaigns' play in our national defense strategy.

The recent missile tests, nuclear detonation and farcical trial of two American journalists are only the most recent examples of the North Korean regime's intentionally bellicose actions.

I happen to think the greatest source of renewable energy is going to come from tidal energy.

I agree that the Promised Land is probably about 30 years away and the bridge to the promised land of renewables is built out of fossil fuels.

I don't want a government or an imposed requirement. I want an industry that stands on its own bottom and therefore survives in the marketplace.

I applaud you for that. I'm just pointing out in Utah you're going to have a real problem as far as the wilderness folks are concerned.

I find it kind of ironic that the Federal Government is subsidizing so that these industries can pay the State of New Mexico royalties.

They simply want to kill oil and gas leases, period.

That is flat not true. They comply with everything you have just said that it is appropriate oil and gas.

Where I come from there is an old adage. It's better to be ahead of the ditch than ahead of the church.

Should the Federal law be adjusted to say we have to pay attention to the use rather than just say when it comes out of the end of the pipe it always has to be of drinking level quality?