"I take it very personally when someone says we potentially could ban the exporting of coal and/or natural gas."
"I think you ought to take a look at that and become more aggressive."
"You are entitled to have that opinion about climate change. I am willing to acknowledge that there is climate change going on."
"When you said on page three that 'we should keep our coal in the ground where it belongs.' Did you really mean that?"
"this is a fight about coal. The war on coal continues here in Washington."
"What are your goals for the growth of nuclear energy overall and how do you believe the budget put forward by your agency can successfully accomplish all of those goals?"
"I am just concerned with that, not only the direction but also because I found that I am trying to reconcile the information that your office up here only had provided from your predecessor."
"I believe that our national labs such as Argonne National Lab in my home State of Illinois can play a key role in devising an enhanced nuclear energy security strategy."
"I think consensus has a place in politics but consensus doesn't have a place in science."
"I really don't want to get a point that we tell middle-class America they are not entitled to a new home."
"How are we going to get affordable housing for middle-class Americans and low-paid people across this country?"