Bernie Sanders

But, my guess is that government is going to have to play a strong role here, because, left alone, industry is not going to make a whole lot of money in providing a product to people who make a dollar a day.

It will not be controlled by one company, who can then charge a very, very high price.

And the price will be affordable to people.

Well, the point here is, we are rewarding and incentivizing the research.

I think we've got to move to a new concept, in terms of funding, research, and development, and it shouldn't be simply a market mechanism.

The function of a drug company, as I understand it, is to make as much money as possible.

I'm almost thinking that maybe these for-profit institutions might put the side effects that you're talking about?

For the rest of their lives, people are going to be carrying around tens and tens and tens of thousands of dollars in debt.

As I hear you, your fear is that large numbers of students lured into for-profit institutions by sophisticated marketing are misleading claims.

In 2000 Libby was declared a Superfund site. In 2009 Administrator Jackson declared a long delayed public health emergency in Libby.

I have encouraged them to keep a copy of Les' photograph as well just as a reminder not just of the people of Libby but also a reminder of ordinary folks who have been faced with such pollution.

I promised myself at that moment that I am not going to let Les down, like whatever I do in life, I have got to make sure that the people of Libby get justice for this travesty that has been imposed upon them.

Allow me to finish my remarks. This is where we are. Where we are right now is a moment at which we either go forward or not, be serious or not. We hear day after day concerns about the deficit. What we know is the oil industry, year after…

I am not a liberal but a progressive. Sometime we will talk about the difference. Mr. President, I did not vote for the $3 trillion war in Iraq. I did not vote for the hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks. I did not vote for the…

The price of photovoltaics are going way down. I think there is an argument right now that in terms of concentrated solar, large utility-size solar projects, in terms of producing energy, they are competitive or cheaper, I should say, than…

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I put my money on the sun and solar energy, what a source of power. I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

Your willingness to take the lead in supporting and encouraging the growing solar industry, and the vision you have shown in crafting this legislation, serve as models for other legislators in Congress.

As you know, because we have worked with DOE on technical feedback for this legislation, our bill authorizes $250 million for the first year as a down payment of sorts toward fully funding this program over 10 years.

Would I be right in assuming that if we create all kinds of demand all over this country that you are going to see efficiencies of scale and installation in terms of driving down prices for solar?

These oil companies used tobacco industry lobbyists and tactics to cast doubt on global warming science. What this is about is, if our Nation is to prosper, if we are to create the millions of jobs we desperately need, we have to have…

As a nation--I agree with Mrs. Powell, who described the situation regarding our kids as abysmal.

I think it costs more money to keep somebody in jail than send them to Harvard University.

But, it's important to understand that arriving immigrants find themselves on the lower rungs of the economic ladder.

I think it's an international disgrace, that we have the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world.