Great Throughts Treasury

"It's a nightmare for any business. We need one standard nationally. "

"Billions of dollars have been spent to subsidize sprawl. It's not about no-growth. It's about control."

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room."

"I don't think we'll get to the protocol without mandatory caps."

"I emphasized to members of the European community that I continue to be as optimistic as the president that, working constructively with our friends and allies through international processes, we can develop technologies, market-based incentives and other innovative approaches to global climate change."

"It's hard to get people to pay for changes they may never see."

"It's not about no-growth. It's about control."

"The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined."

"None of us wants to leave this world in worse shape than we found it."

"The Republican Party has never been this narrow, litmus-test type party. We can disagree on an issue like choice or stem cell research and not be an enemy or a bad person. We need to get away from this approach that we see more and more today, that you can't be a good Republican if you don't believe certain things in a certain way."

"There is a great deal of concern about this seeming attempt to couch everything in religious terms. We're not a narrow-minded nation, and at least some of the people trying to define the Republican Party are coming off that way."

"We now have approximately 30 states where there are 40 different proposals on limiting greenhouse-gas emissions. The worst thing in the world for business in this country is a patchwork quilt of regulations and standards. They want one standard. That's when they can make the kind of investment that will get us where we need to be."

"We won this election for the President, and we deserve to have the next Supreme Court nominee, we deserve to be heard, we deserve to have our policies implemented."

"When you're dealing with people who think that Sponge Bob Square Pants is more important than social security, you have a problem."