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"Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster."
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"One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea."


"There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster."


"Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!"


"If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves."


"It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover."


"Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance."


"What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good."
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"For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this change in policy could lead to further declines in these wild stocks."

"The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline."

"We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish."

"More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999."

"The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States."

"So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park."

"In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem."

"During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines."

"In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more."

"I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town."
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