Sarah Palin Quotes
Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must.
This is one of the few positions where she deviated from a hard right position. Most of the ultra rightists opposed regulation of any kind. However, there had been so many oil drilling and transportation disasters that she felt that the public had to be made more willing to drill new oil wells and government regulation would increase their trust level.
Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska (Republican), Unsuccessful Vice Presidential Candidate, Facebook Note, June 8, 2010
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This was a common refrain by 2005, but this was written 80 years before that. Few had this prescient vision.
Most environmentalists limit the vision of their solutions to using less of our precious natural resources which is very important but just as important and perhaps more so in the long run is increasing the supply of these resources. Food is an example. The major reason that there is no serious food shortage world-wide is that we have increased the productivity of agriculture requiring less labor, less water, less fertilizer, less land, and less dependency on weather. Distribution has also improved, but there is no very good way of distributing something for which there is a great shortage.
30 years later, the same situation existed with Barack Obama as President. The independent oil producers also were doing very well, but the President’s rhetoric was not what they wanted to hear, just as they reacted to President Carter in 1982. He told Americans to conserve energy—not what oil men wanted to hear.
He was discussing the importance of the public’s perception that the values of the military are the same values as the nation holds.
This quotation from his speech was reprinted with others and issued by the CIA upon Helms’ death in 2002.
TEPCO was the Japanese Corporation that operated the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant that so badly hurt Japan. The company was not candid and forthcoming during the disaster and in the aftermath. The governor would not allow TEPCO to restart other reactor in his province until they adopted a new policy of candor and truthfulness.
A minority of newly elected ultra conservative Tea Party Republicans intimidated most of the main line Republicans by threatening to run against them in their primary elections. The result was that almost no legislation was passed and there was a constant drumbeat of attacks against anything the government was doing or might do in the future. Public confidence in government was driven very low, with only the public confidence in Congress lower. The Democrats who could accomplish very little in that circumstance became very unpopular while the Republicans were even more so. However, many Tea Party Republicans viewed that as a victory as their major objective is to enfeeble government—especially the Federal government.
Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator, author, and reality television personality, who served as the ninth governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. As the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election alongside Arizona Senator John McCain, she was the first Republican female vice presidential nominee and the second female vice presidential nominee of a major party, after Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.
