Spencer Abraham Quotes

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

May, Might, Sound

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.
Spencer Abraham

High, Risk, Run

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

Done, Wrong, Often

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

Doubt, American, Last

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

Sometimes, Attention, Public

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

Great, Strong, Growing

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

Nature, Power, Government

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

America, Students, Five

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

Memory, Changed, Issues

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

Nature, Made, Republican

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

Human, America, Said

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.
Spencer Abraham

Play, Energy, Either

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Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: June 12, 1952

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