Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they’re accumulating. They can’t escape that.

I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices – not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region.

We don’t want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country’s energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

The next candidate's going to have a real job.

Designing and implementing a mandatory system (will) be very difficult both politically and economically. We can start somewhere and this conference is our starting point.

It's unfortunate that millions of Californians have to sit in the dark before we, as a nation, begin taking a real look at all our options, including nuclear-generated electricity, for fulfilling our growing demands for more electricity and energy.

It's pretty obvious that when we're finished, there'll be some kind of cigarette tax in the package,

It's getting to where you can't avoid it,