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"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."
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"For a beautiful life, fill it with service and love."
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Personal Development

"Keep your mind open, challenge yourself before you challenge others."
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Personal Development

"A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness."
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Personal Development

"I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU are making NEW things, trying NEW things, learning, living, pushing YOURself, changing YOURself, changing YOUR world. YOU're doing things YOU've never done before, n MORE importantly, YOU're doing something."
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"Every morning, introduce one positive thought into your mind. Be persistent with it until it becomes your habit. It will change your life."
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"Appreciate every little improvement. Forget to criticize every failure as long as you are learning from them."
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"Accept losing but never give up the hope of winning"
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"Adversity could be an advantage in the future. To be a success, take the advantage of adversity whenever possible."
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"If you see only problems, then the doors of opportunities will close. If you see only opportunities, then problems will fly away."
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"The truth is that as you are building your small business, still that small business needs to experience some form of increase and growth."
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"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."
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"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."
Growth


"I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil."
People


"First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil."
Environment


"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."
Environment


"The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage."
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"About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks."
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"Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue."
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"Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme."
Environment


"Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation."
Environment
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