<![CDATA[Grist Feed: Quotables]]> http://www.grist.org/ Articles about Quotables from your friends at Grist en-us webmaster@grist.org (Grist) Sun, 29 Nov 2009 1:47:27 PDT Sun, 29 Nov 2009 1:47:27 PDT 2009, Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Olympia Snowe on GOP losing enviros, everyone else]]> http://www.grist.org/article/2009-olympia-snowe-on-gop-losing-enviros-eve/ Fri, 08 May 2009 11:23:46 -0700 Lisa Hymas http://www.grist.org/article/2009-olympia-snowe-on-gop-losing-enviros-eve/ Reprinted by permission from Grist. For more environmental news, humor, and inspiration, visit www.grist.org.

"We're excluding the young, minorities, environmentalists, pro-choice -- the list goes on. ... To the average American who’s struggling, we’re in some other stratosphere. We’re the party of Big Business and Big Oil and the rich.”

-- Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, on the Republican Party




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"We have a problem and we've got to get it solved. The politics of energy are such that it actually shouldn't be a political question. Let's get to a different point in the discussion about what American needs, and what this country really needs is something where it doesn't really matter whether you're a Republican or a Democrat. ... California went through that transition in the 1970s. That's why their per capita energy use has remained flat over the years, because both parties became convinced that this was something that was very important. I think a similar feeling has to emerge in the general population of the United States, that this is a problem. Our national security, our economic prosperity, our climate issues are really not ultimately political questions."

-- Energy Secretary Steven Chu, responding to a question on the political challenges of crafting energy and climate policy, at the Newsweek Energy Independence 2020 summit




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"We are building our consensus, and when we are ready, we will bring it to the floor. I have never been driven by a Senate timetable or what they are willing to pass. We set our own pace and our own standard here, but respectful of what we can get done, working together with the Senate."

-- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), responding to a question about the House climate bill and what she expects from the Senate




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