Tom Allen quotes

Tom Allen quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.”
-- Tom Allen

#Independence Quotes #Foundation Quotes #Energy Quotes
“While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
-- Tom Allen

#Character Quotes #Winter Quotes #Months Quotes
“Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.”
-- Tom Allen

#Business Quotes #Community Quotes #Small Business Quotes
“Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.”
-- Tom Allen

#Cells Quotes #Promise Quotes #Research Quotes
“Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.”
-- Tom Allen

#August Quotes #Cells Quotes #Research Quotes
“If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.”
-- Tom Allen

#Party Quotes #Identity Quotes #Together Quotes
“The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated.”
-- Tom Allen

#Generosity Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Feelings Quotes
“In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.”
-- Tom Allen

#Cutting Quotes #Ties Quotes #Osama Bin Laden Quotes
“Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response”
-- Tom Allen

#Mercury Quotes #Problem Quotes #Plant Quotes
“The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities”
-- Tom Allen

#Special Quotes #Quality Quotes #Mercury Quotes
“President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office”
-- Tom Allen

#Office Quotes #President Quotes #Energy Quotes
“Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people”
-- Tom Allen

#Winter Quotes #Unique Quotes #Land Quotes
“To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it”
-- Tom Allen

#Children Quotes #War Quotes #Cutting Quotes
“They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.”
-- Tom Allen

#Hippie Quotes #Rights Quotes #Law Quotes
“I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.”
-- Tom Allen

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Numbers Quotes
“We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.”
-- Tom Allen

#Iraq Quotes #Week Quotes #Spending Quotes
“By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!”
-- Tom Allen

#Usa Quotes #America Quotes #Giving Quotes
“I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.”
-- Tom Allen

#People Quotes #Terrorism Quotes #British Quotes
“Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.”
-- Tom Allen

#Stupid Quotes #Entrepreneur Quotes #Cost Quotes
“I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.”
-- Tom Allen

#Believe Quotes #Community Quotes #Research Quotes
“I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.”
-- Tom Allen

#Land Quotes #Support Quotes #Generations Quotes
“Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.”
-- Tom Allen

#Confused Quotes #Lying Quotes #Ocean Quotes
“The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.”
-- Tom Allen

#Ocean Quotes #Animal Quotes #Land Quotes
“Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.”
-- Tom Allen

#Past Quotes #Government Quotes #Citizens Quotes
“But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.”
-- Tom Allen

#Country Quotes #Land Quotes #Sky Quotes

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