14 Quotes by Karen Wayland

Richard Nixon went to China, and Ronald Reagan sat down with the Russians. Today President Bush has the same kind of opportunity to change his course. But it will take more than just a speech to do it.

Bush is starting to hear from a lot of different sources that oil is a big problem, and it's time to do something about it.

It is giving the moderates a lot more courage to stand firm, which means they have a more powerful block to get things taken out,

Orchestrating a federal budget plan to allow Arctic drilling ... only serves to pay back big energy companies that have been hauling in record profits.

We need something. There are bills that would totally lift the moratorium and the lease sale area has always been problematic. This bill greatly expands protections that Florida and the rest of the country currently has in place and also addresses the problems of the existing 90 or so leases.

the Senate caved in to oil and gas companies that are rolling in record profits.

Ted Stevens and Don Young are at it again. Overreaching behind closed doors to slip a controversial attack on the environment that they know couldn't get through the normal legislative process into important national security legislation. Congress should reject this scheme.

This isn't over yet. We'll keep fighting to make sure that this sneaky strategy is stopped in its tracks. Rather than improving national security as the rest of the bill does, cutting off the most promising offshore wind project in the country would harm it. This won't help America break its addiction to oil and reliance on foreign sources of energy.

This could truly be a defining moment for his presidency or, depending on what he does, empty promises.