On the recordJune 30, 2010
You can't buy friendship. Didn't people learn that on the playground? You can give somebody your sandwich, you can give somebody your lunch money and hope that they leave you alone, but all they do is keep coming back for more sandwiches or more money. You can't buy love and affection because you are looked at as a John, not as a lover. It's tragic, but that's what we're doing: trying to buy love and affection from people that hate us. It doesn't work. So here we've got this natural gas contract supposedly going on for the next 20 years. And we have over 100 years of natural gas that's already been found in this country. There's no massive oil spills that come from that. A wonderful Democrat friend across the aisle did some of his growing up over in Longview, Texas, has a bill to start getting cars, put that incentive out there, get cars on to natural gas. That will be a huge help because we have so much natural gas in this country that it will eliminate so much of our dependence on foreign oil. So Dan's got a good bill. And yet the answer apparently from this administration is we're going to buy--not use our own natural gas--we're going to buy it from Yemen hoping they'll like us better. Maybe they won't try to blow up our ships and be a safe haven for terrorists who want to blow up our country. But that's what we're looking at. It isn't good. It's rather tragic.
