Spencer Abraham Quotes

• The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That’s done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it’s interstate in nature. And federal government – this is one area we have no authority.

  Spencer Abraham

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Government

• Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It’s too often the way it’s done in Washington.

  Spencer Abraham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Budget, Policy

• The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

  Spencer Abraham

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Electricity

• The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools inraham.

  Spencer Abraham

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Students

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  There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

   

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Majority, Senate

• If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don’t have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in National

• The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They’ve changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.

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  Topics in Challenge

• Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that’s shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility

• Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

  Spencer Abraham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attention

• There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

  Spencer Abraham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Republican, Nominations, Temper

• Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

  Spencer Abraham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scholars, Historians, Doubt

• Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I’ve never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those.

  Spencer Abraham

  Topics in America

  Tags in Glued

• I always wondered what hearing one’s own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

  Spencer Abraham

  Tags in Wonder, Hearing

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Birth:	12th June, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

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