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Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.

For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.

We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them.

Instead of going to the ends of the Earth - and plumbing the depths of the oceans - to squeeze out every last drop of oil, we need, instead, to do everything we can to reduce the risks of offshore oil and gas production.