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We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.

I think there are several departments we could completely get rid of, and we wouldn't miss it.

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

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.

Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.

In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.

Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons.

Education is the best economic policy there is.