"What about the costs of inaction? What will more droughts mean to agriculture in this Country? What will more floods mean in terms of property destruction? What will climate change mean for national security?"
"I predict that our grandchildren and our great grandchildren will look back on this period and they will not be appreciative of the fact that members of the U.S. Senate have refused not only not to go..."
"To save the planet will be expensive."
"I do find that interesting as we debate how we go forward in addressing the planetary crisis of global warming that neither of the Republican representatives here are talking about global warming."
"I am concerned, as you said, Madam Chair, that the Koch Brothers, ExxonMobil and others are pouring well over $100 million into organizations, including both of their organizations, trying to do what ..."
"We need to have the best-educated workforce in the world. It is absolutely counter-productive to the best interests of our country that hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go..."
"They're getting 20 hours a week. They're getting 30 hours a week. They are desperately trying to bring themselves out of poverty."
"Either you're for one or the other."
"If somebody is going to work, that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on."
"With all due respect, Mr. Sherk, I think you--whether or not you're here representing the Heritage Foundation--are really not making a whole lot of sense, to my mind."
"So we remove the incentive to work by having adequate social programs, so you're opposed to that."