Political Quotes

“Thank you so very much for joining us this evening. I want to bring up just one more issue, and then we will call it a night. America is blessed with a lot of energy. We have seen a resurgence of American energy here in the United States. We have seen us go from an importing Nation--we can be an exporting Nation. One of the things that the American gas industry wants to do is to export a strategic national asset, that is our natural gas. It has allowed us to have one of the lower energy prices in the world. That has allowed for a resurgence of manufacturing in the United States. There are other factors. Clearly, the ability to have low- priced natural gas is one of the ingredients in the resurgence of American manufacturing. Now, the gas industry wants to import a lot of gas so they can get two or three times more for the gas overseas. I want to be really careful here, I don't want to drive up the price of natural gas, but if we are going to export this strategic national asset, then we ought to consider two other strategic issues for the United States. One of them is the merchant marines. These are the American sailors and American ships. Our military is absolutely dependent on the merchant marines. We ship a lot of things through the air on the big C- 5As and the C-17s, but it is a small percentage of what we need if we go to Iraq or any other part of the world with our military.…”