Joe Barton Quotes

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• Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's…
• Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the…
• I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate…
• Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
• I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.
• No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.
• The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants…
• Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids,…
• I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an…
• I think we should drill up in Alaska.
• The constant abuse of online activity must stop.
• Texans are by nature independent people.
• CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term.
• The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach…
• I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way,…
• I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused…
• My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things…
• Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
• The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

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