Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.

Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.