"The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country."

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"The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country."

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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it."

Chris Hadfield, Canadian Astronaut

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"And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian."

Chris Hadfield, Canadian Astronaut

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"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."

Peter Bichsel, Swiss Writer

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"The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in."

Howard Dean, American Politician

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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

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"I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so."

Leroy Chiao, American Astronaut

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"And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year."

Marek Belka, Polish Economist

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"You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country."

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"We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world."

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"I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process."

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"Healing is a moral thing to do."

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"Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency."

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"Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq."

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"President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet."

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"The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast."

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"Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals."

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"Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution."

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"With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans."

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