Gulf Quotes - page 7

I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again. (Hannah Simone)
Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf. View quote
Jan Schakowsky
Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. View quote
Jeff Goodell
I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology. View quote
Jim Parsons
Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the tremendous devastation - and will be for quite some time - we are also seeing increased signs of recovery and help in our region. View quote
Jo Bonner
As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast. View quote
Jo Bonner
I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico. View quote
John Amos
We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan. View quote
Jon Porter
And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me. View quote
Juan Goytisolo
I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News. View quote
Leslie Cockburn
For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from. (Mary Landrieu)
East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados; and western states commonly face damaging droughts. Extreme weather does not discriminate by American geography. View quote
Matt Cartwright
The recovery of the Gulf Coast region will take years to complete. View quote
Max Baucus
The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast. View quote
Michael Chertoff
Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites. View quote
Michael Eric Dyson
Morocco has a lot to do in terms of democracy. The daily practice of democracy evolves in time. Trying to apply a Western democratic system to a country of the Maghreb, the Middle East, or the Gulf would be a mistake. We are not Germany, Sweden or Spain. View quote
Mohammed VI of Morocco
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands. View quote
Mortimer Zuckerman
If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds. View quote
Nelson A. Miles
BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused. View quote
Peter Welch
As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar. View quote
Rick Renzi
I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf. (Stephanie Tubbs Jones)
There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. View quote
Tahar Ben Jelloun
With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high. View quote
Thomas E. Mann
I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness. View quote
Chris Shays
If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current. View quote
Jay Inslee