#port

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

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#bring #demand #despite #economy #exists

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#conversations #dinner #dinner table #ever #had

The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel. ↗

— John Boehner

#commitment #democracy #freedom #israel #just

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things. ↗

— John Boehner

#great #great power #great things #lies #majority

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#depends #development #human #human society #individual

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor. ↗

— Larry Elder

#benefit #better #connected #disproportionately #elite

There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#alternative #argument #convincing #extremists #fighting

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#important thing #little #most #poets #possible

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#george steinbrenner #giving #greatest #had #him