Political Quotes

“Let me make this simple. We need 20 million barrels of oil each day. We need this for oil and natural gas to make plastics, fertilizer, for transportation, and other feedstock. Almost 20 percent of our oil comes from OPEC. Our 10-year trade deficit with OPEC is over $1 trillion. We can buy their oil or we develop our own. Ours or theirs. OPEC money funds the Taliban, al Qaeda, and terrorism, and thousands of servicemen have been killed and tens of thousands have been wounded by them. We have vast supplies, more than 86 billion barrels offshore. We can develop our own safely and responsibly, or we can rely on OPEC. So the real question is this: Where do you want our men and women to work? Do you want them to wear helmets or hard hats? Do we want them carrying rifles or wrenches, driving tanks or trucks? Do you want them to be protecting foreign wells and fighting terrorists paid off with OPEC oil money? Or do we want our men and women working here in America for American energy? In my work in the Navy, I have seen too many of our American servicemen and -women wounded. And so now the choice is simple. What do you choose? I choose American energy. Mr. DeFAZIO. I yield myself such time as I may consume. I'd just like to respond to the gentleman who preceded me. The statistic he used was accurate in 2005, the 20 million barrels a day imported. And that was, of course, when George Bush was President of the United States with the Bush-Cheney energy policy.…”