#sour

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years. ↗

— Kit Bond

#chief #commander #did #enough #experience

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security. ↗

— Kit Bond

#coast guard #customs #federal #federal government #government

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence

With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil. ↗

— Mary Bono

#crucial #dependency #diversify #energy #energy sources

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#inversely #proportional #resource #supply #time

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies of energy so that our economy will not be dependent on foreign sources of energy. ↗

— Richard Burr

#comprehensive #critical #dependent #economy #energy

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. ↗

— William James

#emergencies #great #greater #had #how

With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security. ↗

— Lois Capps

#country #demand #drill #energy #energy security

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#faults #miseries #source #summary