Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliot Diringer

We've asked the OPEC nations to keep an open mind about increased oil production, and we continue to believe an increase is good for both producing and consuming nations.

Barbara Boxer

To my constituents, today's hearing is about shared sacrifices in tough times versus oil company greed, ... Working people struggle with high gas prices and your sacrifices appear to be nothing.

Julie Brough

We're stalled. When you see oil prices back up to their high, you've seen gold hovering around $600 US, people are making some really good money and I think there's a lot of people who are just taking the opportunity to crystallize some gains which is keeping the market at bay a little bit right now.

Gene Gillespie

We're sort of in an oil price bubble.

E. O. Wilson

We're going to see continued volatility in the near term -- the oil market is sending conflicting signals.

Kate Warne

What we're seeing today is a combination of lower oil prices and concern about the strength of the economy in the second quarter.

Peter Gignoux

What we're seeing this morning is in response to OPEC's comments and also some old-fashioned year-end book squaring. Oil prices rose sharply and then fell. The market is doing some to-and-fro action, where traders saw the fluctuations and thought about pulling back instead of buying at the higher prices.

Tyson Slocum

What we're saying is, look, there's an easy way to pay for it: the oil companies. They've got record cash flows, record profits. Impose a new tax on them, use the revenues to dedicate to these programs.

Mark Waggoner

What they're saying is, not only will we cut off our oil but we're going to interfere with other people's oil as well.

Anne Sullivan

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Anne Sullivan

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Anne Sullivan

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

Jeff Kinney

Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!

John Perkins

We're aware that there's a worldwide shortage of refinery capacity and to that extent, we've let it be known that we'd be amenable to discussing the possibility in Nova Scotia, and we have had discussions with a couple of parties.

Frederick Saunders

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Frederick Saunders

How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!

Arthur Frank Burns

As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?

Houssaye Houssaye

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

John Marshall

We're going to talk to the voters about the issues Colorado cares about. We don't begrudge him bringing in Eastern Bloc friends, but I suspect that the cowboys down at the coffeehouse in Delta are more interested what the candidates have to say about water and health care than whether or not the president of Poland is backing you.

Jim Harrison

What we're looking at right now is three teams that are unbeatable by any Southern Colorado team - Regis, Mullen and Broomfield. What we did (Tuesday) is we put ourselves in one of their brackets.

Bob Beauprez

Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves!

Bob Beauprez

Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.

Richard Perkins

When you've got the Republican governor of Colorado running around the state asking voters to suspend their TABOR law, and they're talking about privatizing their higher ed system because they can't afford it, it shows it's one of those things that would have a significant negative impact on public safety and education in Nevada,

Beth Miller

There is no question that county and state dollars will have to be used. It's just hard to imagine that the state of Colorado can come up with $30 (million) or $40 million.

Connie Willis

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.

Brad Lidge

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

Krist Novoselic

I don't know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and I'm sure he was working on the lyrics right up to the show because they were really relevant for the situation.