In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.
Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.
We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.
America has the potential to lead the world in energy production and, in the process, to create millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in output - generating considerable tax revenue.
Global energy security is a vital part of America's national security.
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
This bill, this badly named ENLIST Act, would put out the advertisement that says, 'Sneak into America. Sneak into the military, and that's going to be the most expeditious path to American citizenship and the whole smorgasbord of benefits that come from American citizenship.'
We should all be neo-abolitionists here to make sure that there is no right in America to enslave others using the Internet.
If immigration reform is bad for America's workers, then why does virtually every group that represents American workers support it so enthusiastically?
America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.
If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice.
Back when the EPA proposed phasing out ozone-depleting CFCs, the chemical industry howled that refrigerators would fail in America's supermarkets, hospitals and schools.
One of my worries about America is the epidemic of depression we've been in. One of the possibilities about that is that the 'I' gets bigger and bigger, and the 'we' gets smaller and smaller.
The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.
You can't have some institutions that are protected by the law, not allowed to fail, and not held to account, and all the other companies in America are allowed to fail. You can't have equal justice under law and too big to fail.
Democrats have pushed for equal pay for women because we know that when women succeed, America succeeds.
In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue.
The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.
