We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have with China. We emit six times more per person than they do. It's hard to tell them to cut theirs in half right now until we start moving. Being the ostrich with your head in the sand and tail feathers in the air like some would have us to do while China continues to pollute is simply not an option.

It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future.

We can't tell China what to do if we don't do it ourselves. You don't inspire someone to take an action by refusing to take it yourself. We are in a race to be the dominant clean-energy provider to the world. Maybe this goes without saying: We've got to get China into an international protocol and the magic words are "common responsibility with differentiated action."