(40 quotes found)
“I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?”
Senator John Kerry
“The land was not the arctic waste commonly envisioned, but a fertile paradise; Puget Sound, said one rhapsodic report, was 'the Mediterranean of the Northwest”
David Lavender
“Having traveled for 45 years in the Arctic, what I've seen the last 15 years is shocking. We need to finally face up that we have an issue here and we need to get back to solutions.”
Will Steger
“I don't see any geopolitical tensions arising out of the Arctic.”
Andris Piebalgs
“The removal of Arctic and coastal drilling by no means implies this bill is good for America. The House passed a bill loaded down with draconian cuts to programs for the most vulnerable in our country.”
Carl Pope
“By using the budget bill primarily as a vehicle for Arctic Refuge drilling, the Senate has dropped any pretense of working to balance the budget or reduce the deficit. The Senate is treating the budget process as a joke and a special interest gravy boat.”
“This is probably the most threatened the Arctic refuge has been since 1960, when it was established as a reserve by President Dwight Eisenhower.”
Bill Meadows
“[It is a phenomenon that frightens the native people that live around the Arctic. Many fear their children will never know the polar bear.] The ice is moving further and further north, ... In the Bering Sea the ice leaves earlier and earlier. On the north slope, the ice is retreating as far as 300 or 400 miles offshore.”
Charlie Johnson
“They mapped the Arctic Ocean with this thing.”
Clay Condit
“It basically came from the arctic. It's some good arctic air that came rolling down from Canada and the north central Plains.”
Craig Stewart
