We need a national renewable or clean energy standard.

real unemployment today, in my view, is probably closer to 16 percent than it is 9 percent

Thank you very much.

In my view, we can create good-paying jobs by investing in efficiency and sustainable energy, technologies that create more jobs per dollar than many other energy technologies.

I think what most Americans are very alarmed about, when they go into a store and they try to buy something, it is increasingly difficult to buy something manufactured in the United States of America.

We need to reinvent our environmental regulations to bring these down to being cost-effective, so that we can attract the capital, that we have the certainty and create jobs.

it is very hard for me to understand how anyone could be voting to repeal the entire health care bill. Because when you do that, among other things, what you are saying is that we will continue the odious practice by insurance companies of…

When President Obama first came into office, I met with Treasury and gave them a presentation, which I will be glad to share with everybody, pointing out, saying in the next few years you are going to have horrendous problems in terms of…

They are not disposed toward cramdowns. In fact, they are very much scared of them.

in Vermont we're making real, real success; and if you're really nice to us in the next couple of years, and you grant a few more requests, every part of the State of Vermont, every county, every area in the State of Vermont will enable…

As you may know, the State of Vermont is giving serious thought to moving forward toward a Medicare-for-all-single-payer program.

Our goal there is to maintain the high standards of the national legislation, but to give States flexibility.

We do not want to throw people off of health insurance; we want to make sure that every person in our State is covered.

We believe that we can save many, many hundreds of millions of dollars through a Medicare-for-all-single-payer program.

Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few words with political friends in Vermont and throughout the country. I also want to thank the very many…

As a Nation, we should be deeply concerned that in China they are building high-speed rail all over the place.

health care is a huge burden on our economy. No one disagrees with that.

But you talked about the Canadian tax system. You lauded certain provisions of that.

the President has proposed in his budget to let the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans expire at the end of 2012.

if you add to that, Senator Sessions, State taxes and you add local taxes, which are, by and large, regressive.

I voted against huge tax breaks for the wealthiest people in the country.

In 2007, the wealthiest 400 Americans made an average of $345 million a year.

Do the governments in Europe do a little bit better job? Of course they do.

The people on top, the top 1 percent, the top 2 percent, are doing phenomenally well at the same time as the middle class in this country is collapsing.

Real unemployment in America today--I have not heard a word about unemployment yet, by the way--is 16 percent.