Quotes About Sequestration

#1. When President Obama asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling $2 trillion and offered sequestration as an offset, I opposed it. I did not believe we should put the country $2 trillion deeper in debt and impose irresponsible massive cuts to our national security.

Mike Turner

#2. The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.

Robert Jackson

#3. Sequestration, sequestation - however you pronounce that word - and gridlock aren't all that bad.

Nelson Peltz

#4. Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

Johnny Isakson

#5. The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

Lindsey Graham

#6. Not only will the development of coal-to-liquid and environmentally friendly sequestration technologies increase our energy security, but these advancements will also help create better, higher-paying American jobs.

Peter Roskam

#7. The sequestration is a bad idea, all around. It is something that is out of the question. If you have spending cuts, education of our children, other investments, on the National Institutes of Health, where you are hindering growth, you're no going to reduce the deficit.

Nancy Pelosi

#8. The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by 'clean' means (biofuels, innovative renewables, carbon sequestration, and nuclear fusion).

Martin Rees

#9. And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration.

Nancy Pelosi

#10. If sequestration takes place, that's going to be a great setback. We don't need to be having something like sequestration that's going to cause these job losses - over 170 million jobs that could be lost,

Maxine Waters

#11. We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.

Michael Pollan

#12. If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.

Al Gore

#13. Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.

Max Baucus

#14. And in terms of welfare, of course, the loss suffered will be much greater than the loss in merely arithmetical terms, because the psychological losses of those who are unemployed will greatly outweigh the psychological gains of those with a slightly higher income in terms of purchasing power.

Henry Hazlitt

#15. Life should always be like this ... Like lingering over a good meal.

Janet Fitch

#16. The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

Ida Tarbell

#17. An unused conscience is no conscience at all.

Carsten Jensen

#18. I think anybody who's willing to really sink their teeth into a work like the Hammerklavier, which is a very interesting, different experience, should look instead at something like the Sonata by Paul Dukas, which, in my opinion, is a real marvel.

Marc-Andre Hamelin