"Regardless of the outcome of the summit, I for one will continue to urge the administration to use every possible economic and diplomatic solution to find answers and bring us forward."
"All too often this issue has been used as a vehicle to push a radically progressive agenda that would prove to be devastating for American families, and would offer minimal, at best, climate results."
"If any of you have been to Utah, you will understand why I believe Utahans have it in their DNA to be good stewards of this earth."
"I regret the stereotypes that are often formed around this issue. Somehow all Republicans hate the environment and all Democrats are alarmist."
"I believe, personally, having been a former mayor, that if you want to reduce it by 2 degrees, mayors know how to solve this."
"Are we changing our light bulbs? Are we not using plastic bags, and all of those things?"
"I regret that, because of the anger in that area, nobody realized that my bill did more to protect the land than President Obama's designation."
"It is the right thing to do."
"The time has come for the U.S. to reconsider our support of this disastrous war and to consider the moral imperatives that form the foundation of our values and strategic interests."
"I would, like many of my colleagues, like to emphasize two themes that we have heard throughout these hearings."
"Despite the amazing work that we do, the over $8 billion of investment that we make there, that sometime China comes in and negates all of that."
"We felt that the mechanism was totally wrong because it was infringing on freedom of religion."