Bob Bennett
Bob Bennett
American Republican politician who served as a senator for Utah from 1993 to 2011.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 September 1933
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Given the huge nature (of the disaster), it is inevitable there would be areas of failure. There are a lot of areas we can look and say could have been done better. But if we look at the overall dimensions of the thing, we have to cut some people some slack.
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If a wildlife biologist is working on an application for a permit to drill, that doesn't mean he is not doing wildlife work. The wildlife job is a broad job, and it does involve energy.
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I think if you're going to be fair to our president, you owe him at least that,
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I tell you no such evidence exists. They have recycled a bunch of old rumors ... There is no pattern and you're not going to find a pattern.
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We just want to make sure it's safe. It just depends on how many folks we've got to help.
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You can disagree with the message, but don't shoot the messenger.
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We have a trial date set of May 27. I think you're all going to learn on May 27 that these six or seven hundred pages are like a big piece of cotton candy. When you bite into it, it just doesn't -- it just doesn't exist,
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We're in the process of converting to the electronic voting, and we need our best people. We've moved them from any responsibility of recount or responsibility of ballots.
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I am making it clear that my support for Yucca Mountain . . . does no longer hold in the situation we find ourselves, ... It makes sense for (nuclear) waste to be stored on site and to be shipped to a reprocessing center.
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I don't think there's any question about it. This is going to be our toughest challenge yet that we've had recently. I'm not the least bit pessimistic, but I think we have a struggle.