Martin Heinrich famous quotes

When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
-- Martin Heinrich

#America #Energy #Second Best

Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.
-- Martin Heinrich

#Country #Issues #Environmental

I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it's in part because our strength is our diversity as a party, but our weakness is also the fact that because we're so diverse, we have a hard time getting on one page on message.
-- Martin Heinrich

#Party #Thinking #Hard Times

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.
-- Martin Heinrich

#Voice #Should #Policy

We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that.
-- Martin Heinrich

#Party #Political #Tea

Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.
-- Martin Heinrich

#Moon #Technology #America

Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.
-- Martin Heinrich

#Real #Gun #Law

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?

In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.

Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.

Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere

I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me. - Oliver Hazzard-Perry

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came