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As utility companies work to achieve full compliance with clean water standards, Congress must ensure our nation's most vulnerable are not priced out of life's most essential resource.

Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here.

Rooftop solar is the first true form of competition that utilities have ever faced, and that is why they're attacking it.

Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Let's do away with the Departments of Education, Energy Commerce, Housing and Urban Development.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.