Bob Bennett

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?

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

We're going to great lengths to try to remove the toxic assets from the balance sheets of the various institutions.

A 30-year mortgage is traditionally retired in seven years, so somewhere, the mortgage disappears.

The thing that is intriguing to me, is the possibility that by making housing mortgages available at a significantly lower rate...

The whole purpose of trying to get this loan guarantee was because I wanted major new nuclear plants.

If I were on the board of a company that was going to invest there, I would want to know can they survive if the tax credits ultimately go away.

In other words it is the private investor who still makes the decision as to which technology gets backed rather than the government crowding that decision out.

I'm just hoping that it would make it easier for the entity to make the decision on the basis of the science rather than the television ads.

We want to get all of the folks in the military to vote, but at the same time we do not want to put undue burdens on the people who actually run the machinery.

SEIU plans to spend a significant chunk of its nearly $100 million political budget to help Harry Reid get a filibuster-proof Senate.

As they defend our rights, we need to make sure they are able to exercise theirs.

Service on this Committee will do you no good whatsoever in terms of your relationship with your constituents.

We want everyone who is legally qualified to vote to be able to vote.

I think our present campaign laws are to the disadvantage of political parties.

I think the right to vote implies the right not to vote.

To move completely in the direction of one value as opposed to the other is foolhardy.

Whom did you go after? How did you know to call 33,000 people? Were they self-selected?

I may not like it as a Republican, but that is the way the laws are structured now and you acted entirely in accordance with the law.

I understand that, but you are talking 33,000 people. What percentage of them lived in Mr. Nelson's state and said they had no problem?

the declining power of political parties is one of the reasons why, according to this book, voters are vanishing.

without action to free up the credit markets, the effects would be severely felt on Main Street.

the thought of government intervention was difficult for me to stomach, but with the entire economy facing a serious emergency, I decided that bold government action was urgent in this situation.

Protecting the taxpayer and returning the full $700 billion (or at least a large part of it) back to the government was central to my support of the original TARP program.

There is no sign that the private capital that is waiting on the sidelines is ready to come in.