61 Quotes by Fred Upton

Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, lusting for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results.

We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires,

I support renewable energy.

I’m a Reagan Republican, which means I don’t speak ill of other Republicans.

New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change – particularly in the past few years – continues to accelerate.

Given the slow pace of Washington’s bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday’s problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.

I support an all of the above energy policy, so that’s not only just Keystone, that’s not only just drilling, that’s clean coal, that’s safe nuclear.

I’m not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.

We’ve heard this before; ‘things are bad, we are gonna fix them,’ and they remain unfixed.