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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'So when it came time to vote on Dick Cheney's energy bill, I voted no, and Senator Obama voted yes.' -- Hillary Clinton, Ohio Democratic presidential primary debate
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Hillary Clinton, legislation, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
"I helped to pass legislation to begin a training program for green collar jobs. I want to see people throughout Ohio being trained to do the work that will put solar panels on roofs, install wind turbines, do geothermal, take advantage of biofuels, and I know that if we had put $5 billion into the stimulus package to really invest in the training and the tax incentives that would have created those jobs as the Democrats w ...
Topics: elections, green jobs, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
"We're going to have to invest in infrastructure to make sure that we're competitive. And I've got a plan to do that. We're going to have to invest in science and technology. We've got to vastly improve our education system. We have to look at energy and the potential for creating green jobs that can not just save on our energy costs but, more importantly, can create jobs in building windmills that will produce manufacturing jobs here in Ohio, can put rural commun ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, green jobs, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	25 Feb 2008	Gristmill
"After all, there's not a dime's worth of a difference between a candidate promising tax cuts, pushing more health risk onto individuals, a re-invigoration of George Bush's campaign to dominate the world through military force, and an industry-friendly approach to environmental issues and his rival who's promising substantial socialization of medical risk, a 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions, and end to the war in Iraq (and to the mindset that led to ...
Topics: elections, politics, presidential race 08, quotables, Ralph Nader (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	24 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'His being on the Green Party [ballot] prevented Al Gore from being the greenest president we could have had, and I think that's really unfortunate. I think we paid a big price for it. I'm pretty sad about that. -- Hillary Clinton, on Ralph Nader's entry into the 2008 presidential race
Topics: elections, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08, quotables, Ralph Nader (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	30 Jan 2008	Gristmill
"... there are a number of pieces of legislation where [McCain's] views are out of the mainstream, at least in my view, of conservative Republican thought. So, for instance, he's opposed to drilling in ANWR, I believe. ... ... And then now McCain-Lieberman, which is a unilateral -- meaning U.S.-only imposed -- cap-and-trade program, which puts a burden, as much as 50 cents a gallon, on gasoline in this country. It basically says Americans are going to pa ...
Topics: Arctic refuge, carbon trading, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, Mitt Romney, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	30 Jan 2008	Gristmill
'Maybe we're wrong.' -- the Nader 2008 Presidential Exploratory Committee, getting halfway there
Topics: elections, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	11 Dec 2007	Gristmill
'And we ought to declare that we will be free of energy consumption in this country within a decade, bold as that is.' -- Mike Huckabee, Republican presidential candidate, 10 Dec. 2007 [UPDATE: It appears Huckabee was misquoted in an early draft of the transcript. His quote now reads, 'And we ought to declare that we will be oil free of energy consumption in this country within a decade, bold as that is.' That doesn't make a ton of sense either, but at least it' ...
Topics: presidential race 08, elections, politics, quotables, energy (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'I can promise you that as president I will have him involved in our administration in a very senior capacity.' -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, on Nobel Peace Laureate Al Gore
Topics: Al Gore, Barack Obama, elections, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable, non-environmental edition	David Roberts	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'It depends on who does it.'-- Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, on whether waterboarding is torture
Topics: elections, politics, presidential race 08, quotables, Rudy Giuliani (all these topics)

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