I think it is important to recognize that there is the question of how much climate change we think we are prepared to accept.

This is the country that has 30 Catholic priests in jail and has plundered Tibet and is spying on us.

We are closing factories faster than opening them. They are opening them and we are closing them.

There is something wrong here. And I know a lot of politicians don't want to say anything about it. But there is something wrong.

Secondly, how many students do we have majoring in math and science and physics and chemistry and biology compared to, say, the Chinese and also India?

I think we are playing with fire in this country in terms of losing our position.

I think the failure of this institution is that we are not prepared to do what is necessary for them.

the answer is to dramatically increase research and development so that solar panels become cheaper than fossil fuels sooner rather than later.

We are broke. And when I listen to some of the witnesses, if it was just a question of us buying another printing press, I think we could fund that right away and get more paper from.

I mean, we would move to paper. Government paper will be junk bond status.

I think as a nation we are just disregarding some of the fundamentals.