Bernie Sanders

It is critical that we increase our use of renewable energy and reduce our emissions.

The lesson of the RGGI experience is plain and reassuring: cap-and-trade works.

As we discuss the transportation infrastructure crisis in America, we cannot forget rural America.

It costs more money to rebuild a crumbling infrastructure than it does to simply maintain it.

We need an additional $1 billion over the next 5 years just to keep our roads and bridges in the same poor shape they are in right now.

We are seeing transportation technology that we don't have in the United States of America.

If you allow your infrastructure to deteriorate, year after year after year you don't put funding in it, you know what? It is going to get worse; probably will not get better.

Thank you for your strong advocacy for the stimulus package which I think is one of the most important pieces of legislation, for a dozen different reasons, that this Country has passed in a very, very long time.

The American Society of Civil Engineers has estimated that we should be investing over $2 trillion in infrastructure.

I think obviously the American people have had it up to here with financial institutions in general.

Do you think taxpayers have a right to be a little bit upset about that?

I get in my office--and I am sure Senator Whitehouse and every Senator gets--irate calls from taxpayers of this country...

Are we looking at a form of three-piece-suit CEO corporate loan sharking here?

Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for allowing me to drop into this Committee of which I am not a member, and thank you also very much, Mr. Chairman, for cosponsorship of legislation that I have introduced which would put a cap on credit…

I think one way that we can move forward... is to, in fact, put a cap on interest rates.

The incredible greed, recklessness, illegal behavior on the part of Wall Street has enraged the American people.

I am a strong proponent of solar thermal plants.

I think it would show the whole world the seriousness of what we believe in and our ability to go forward.

It's up to this Congress and up to the administration as well to move forward aggressively in terms of making the solar and renewable energy dreams a reality.

These are enormously important issues. It sounds like you are moving in the right direction.

In these difficult times you are the right person for the job.

We have passed a GI Bill which has the greatest expansion in veterans' educational opportunities since World War II.

We have consecutively, in recent years, proposed record-breaking budgets for the VA.

The fact that people now can get decent compensation to get to the clinic or get to the hospital is quite a big deal.

Pay and job tenure should depend on performance, and those which have performed poorly should lose their jobs.