We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation. |
China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations. |
We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities. |
Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists. |
The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations. |
We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do. |
I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan. |
Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued. |
For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that. |
Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines. |
But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now. |