#nw

I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#big #big oil #build #businesses #confused

Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#drilling #energy #energy prices #fails #long

There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#energy #exploration #no reason #reason #support

Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air. ↗

— Billy Mays

#always #count #plane #runway #stuck

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#chief executive #commonwealth #executive #governor #represents

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#bottom #car #could #down #drove

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#contempt #defense #despised #feelings #own

Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#as far as #beautiful #city #different #eye

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#choice #commonwealth #go #i #lose

These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion. ↗

— Gale Norton

#anwr #billion #could #done #estimate