"This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response."

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Source : "Gulf oil well still gushing". "AM" with Lisa Millar, www.abc.net.au. May 31, 2010.

Carol Browner

#Country Quotes #Oil Quotes #Environmental Quotes

“What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.”
“I used to enjoy doing silly walks on the street with my friends. Like, you know, you're walking, and then you break out in something completely ridiculous, to kind of spook out the person walking by you. I can't really do that anymore.”
“I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited.”

Source : "Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators". Book by Riccardo Orizio, 2003.
“All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Erol and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.”
“Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.”

Source : "'A labour of love'" by Jools Holland, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.
“One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.”
“There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides have a stake in the fight.”
“But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.”

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