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Joe Barton
9 quotes
“As long as I am chairman, [regulating global warming pollution] is off the table indefinitely. I don't want there to be any uncertainty about that.”
Joe Barton (born 1949) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Congressional hearing entitled, "National Energy Policy: Coal" Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality (March 14, 2001)
“I appreciate that in China, people are hungry to prosper in the global economy. What they need is a body of elected representatives who will widely debate and freely pass a strong national energy policy. Selling China an oil company will only take pressure off its rulers and further delay the arrival of democracy.”
Joe Barton (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Medicaid is a study in contradiction. Thanks to it, America's neediest get health care paid for by taxpayers. Often they get better health care than taxpayers can afford for themselves. The program is both 'free' and break-the-bank expensive. It lets poor people look rich and rich people look poor, and it rewards lawyers and druggists with real wealth. Medicaid works so well it's going broke.”
Joe Barton (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am just thinking how unfair it is of you to quote their own words. It is a low blow to use what ExxonMobil has actually said against them. I mean, that is kind of a cheap shot, don't you think?”
Joe Barton (born 1949) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Committee on Energy of Commerce Hearing: Gasoline: Supply, Price, and Specifications, May 10, 2006
“I cannot imagine any objective finding that CO2 is a pollutant. If that's true, God is a polluter.”
Joe Barton (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Global warming science is uneven and evolving.”
Joe Barton (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is. Wouldn't it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up? Now, I'm not saying that's going to happen, Mr. Chairman, but that is definitely something on the massive scale. I mean, it does make some sense. You stop something, you can't transfer that heat, and the heat goes up. It's just something to think about.”
Joe Barton (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm speaking totally for myself and I'm not speaking for the Republican Party and I'm not speaking for anybody in the House of Representatives but myself, but I'm ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it's a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown.”
Joe Barton (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I apologize. I do not want to live in a country where anytime a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong is subject to some sort of political pressure, that is again, in my words, amounts to a shakedown. So I apologize.”
Joe Barton (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source