41 Quotes by Ted Stevens

It is important for us to get the facts and avoid speculation.

It is an offense, a threat to every person in my state.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is 19 million acres, ... The area set aside for oil and gas exploration is 1.5 million acres. Because of advances in technology, only 2,000 acres of that will be needed for production.

The Defense Department is the largest consumer of oil in the federal government. We must develop our resources in the Coastal Plain to ensure we can meet our defense-related energy needs and reduce our dependence on unstable and unfriendly regimes.

We ought to wait for the scientists to tell us what needs to be done,

We put restrictions on over-the-air signals. I think we can put restrictions on cable itself.

Unfortunately, clinically depressed. I've been told that, because I've just been at this too long, 24 years arguing to get Congress to keep its word. I'm really getting to the point where I'm taking on people even in my own party that do things that I don't think is fair. You get to that point where you're challenging your colleagues -- that's not exactly good. I really am very, very disturbed.

What we are looking at is when the National Guard should be triggered to come into a state to assist, ... We aren't going to mandate it. We are going to ask for a report as to how it should be done and figure out if it is possible to develop a plan for that.

I understand one demanded a new football field.