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Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#burdensome #cases #clear #current #efforts

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#banker #bus #containing #crime #fare

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#energetic #even #fairly #happiness #i

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice. ↗

— George Eliot

#growth #human #lies #principle #strongest

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#come #common #fear #foreign #foreign languages

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#consumption #get #going #growth #imported

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#back #burn #choice #clear #concrete

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#far #gasoline #get #going #hour

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. ↗

— John Boehner

#american #american family #believe #family #i

It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president. ↗

— John Boehner

#bush #colleagues #dealt #difficult #down