#region

I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#bill #costs #country #diversify #drive

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#anyone #comfort #console #contrary #destiny

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#complicated #dangerous #iraq #precarious #regional

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#american #american music #answer #come #comfort

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#american #between #break #could #declaration

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#global #had #idea #just #much

It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury. ↗

— Greg Walden

#administration #also #believe #cost #drive

Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#before #bring #bringing #chaos #done

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#any #down #estimate #europe #magnitude

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#contemplation #general #just #monks #our