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"Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables."

"We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem."
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"In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways."

"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."

"Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies."

"There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better."

"One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil."
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"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times."

"I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan."

"The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion."

"We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again."

"During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected."

"But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business."

"When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there."
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