I think [Obamacare] will survive. Or it may be called something else. And as I said I don't don't mind.

What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed

Solyndra is a great investment in our future

But while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return

Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody who says the problem you're trying to solve simply doesn't exist. When President Kennedy set us on a course for the moon, there were a number of people who made a serious case that it wouldn't be worth it; it was going to be too expensive, it was going to be too hard, it would take too long. But nobody ignored the science. I don't remember anybody saying that the moon wasn't there or that it was made of cheese.

I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington.