Mark Warner

You can't get this fixed on the deficit side, on only one side of the ledger.

America is one of the few major industrial countries in the world that doesn't even have a competitiveness strategy.

Changes to this process are always welcome. Safety should be the number-one focus.

I know he has been working very hard--a group of us have been working hard on making sure that credit is getting out there to small businesses, as well.

I think it would be very helpful--as most of the American public still questions, I view, the stimulus was, while not pretty, necessary.

I personally believe not only should the R&E tax credit be made permanent, but it should be raised from 14 percent, hopefully up to 20 percent.

The rate of change that we'd seen across the 16 metrics that Dr. Atkinson will describe later.

Too often, our regulatory system has become an impediment to innovation.

It is long overdue. And I appreciate your interest in both competitiveness and innovation.

I don't think our country's had much of an innovation or growth strategy for the last decade-plus.

The markets of tomorrow are not just going to be domestic, they're going to be all over the world.

Already, FDA's inconsistent approval process has dampened investment.

The longer it takes to get a new device to market, the less certainty investors have and the more capital businesses need.

I think the greatest job and wealth creator in the next 25 years, worldwide, will be the energy sector.

Minnesota, in my State, has led medical innovation for more than 60 years and boasts more than 400 medical device companies.

The President has identified a few areas that he has called for an 'all-hands-on-deck' approach to catalyze breakthroughs.

One of the areas that we've had the most precipitous decline in the last decade is the slowing of early-stage capital formation.

I'm going to take my inspiration from Senator Lautenberg, here.

Civil servants ought to act in a civil manner.

I constantly hear complaints about mistreatment of the traveling public by TSA officers.

I think you've got the absolute right background for this position.

I think there's going to be a lot of management components of this challenge that I look forward to working with you on.

Your number-one job is to make sure that your TSA employees ensure the safety of the homeland, the safety of our traveling public.

But it takes a long time for that to change, and it takes multiple agencies coordinating efforts to bring about that change, and that is where I do think the Federal Government does have an important role.

You know, the immediate critiques of this bill will be, you know, is it just about squishy livability; you know, is it once again the Federal Government further extending its reach into areas that, as my colleague from Montana, Senator…