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" Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery. "
Robert Zubrin
Discovery
Science
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" The goods of the world market are available for Cuba to purchase, but all the foreign exchange is monopolized by the regime, which uses it for its own power and pleasure. "
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" What Russia really needs is not gay rights but human rights, and the rule of law. "
Robert Zubrin
Gay
Human Rights
Rule Of Law
" Prosperous communities are much better able to survive hurricanes or other natural disasters because they have greater resources, both public and private, to fall back upon. "
Robert Zubrin
Fall
Back
Better
" We need to drastically reduce the importance of the petroleum game itself by enacting flex-fuel-vehicle legislation that will open the transportation market to fuels derived from non-petroleum sources. "
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Will
Open
Need
" The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power. "
Robert Zubrin
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" The problem is that the automobile companies are not independent entities capable of pursuing their own interests. Rather, they are owned and controlled by organizations that are much more heavily invested in oil. "
Robert Zubrin
Own
Problem
Independent
" America is a country defined by a set of ideas, and when people choose to accept those ideas, they should be able to become Americans, as fully so as any - and perhaps more so than most - regardless of how recently they or their ancestors arrived upon our shores. This is the true American tradition, which as conservatives we must defend. "
Robert Zubrin
American
True
People
" What the world needs most for its stability, and what the U.S. needs for its national security, is economic growth, which is driven first and foremost by expanded carbon use. "
Robert Zubrin
First
Driven
Growth
" Government attempts to ban fracking should be aborted. The government should lift the burdensome regulations that have made the construction of nuclear power plants excessively expensive, thereby freeing up even more natural gas for direct use or for methanol manufacture. "
Robert Zubrin
Construction
Power
Plants
" I grew up in the 1960s and wanted to become part of the great space exploration effort, but when I graduated from college in 1974, the Apollo program was over, and the country had moved into this pessimistic mode. We had entered the 'age of limits.' "
Robert Zubrin
Space
College
Effort
" In what was called the second siege of Leningrad, thousands died, but Putin and his partners in crime got rich. Then Putin killed even more Russians when he had the FSB explode bombs in apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999 to give himself the pretext to seize dictatorial powers. "
Robert Zubrin
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Crime
Rich
" Without Ukraine, Dugin's fascist Eurasian Union project is impossible, and sooner or later, Russia itself will have to join the West and become free, leaving only a few despised and doomed islands of tyranny around the globe. "
Robert Zubrin
Free
Will
Tyranny
" The anti-American policy is the one that keeps oil prices up. The way to do that is to help OPEC limit the amount of liquid fuel available. "
Robert Zubrin
Limit
Oil
Policy
" The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of its code, with the amount of the penalty set in proportion to the amount of pollutant released by a given defendant, and no penalties imposed in the absence of any pollutant released. "
Robert Zubrin
Absence
Forth
System
" In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil. "
Robert Zubrin
American
World
Oil
" Through our CO2 emissions, we are making the earth a more fertile world. "
Robert Zubrin
Through
World
Earth
" Ireland never lacked the capacity to feed its people. During the entire 'great famine,' the island continued to produce massive amounts of beef and grain. The Irish just couldn't afford to buy any of it due to the enforcement of rack-renting, high taxation, and suppression of manufactures. "
Robert Zubrin
People
Just
High
" The key issue is not who is in charge but what. Russia's problem is constitutional. There is no division of powers. The judges, the police, and the legislature all work for the same people, and there is essentially no trial by jury. As a result, anyone can be arrested and accused of anything, and conviction is almost guaranteed. "
Robert Zubrin
People
Result
Problem
" Some conservatives say that whether it's popular or unpopular, imposing strict limits on immigration is the right thing to do, and it must be defended. "
Robert Zubrin
Immigration
Some
Say
" In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears. "
Robert Zubrin
Liberty
Purpose
Sincerity
" The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be. "
Robert Zubrin
Activity
More
Costs
" I don't think we should have to do a Mars mission on the basis of hysteria. I think we should do a Mars mission on the basis of a deliberate judgment that what we want to do is open up a new planet for humanity... that we are continuing to be a nation of pioneers. "
Robert Zubrin
Mission
Humanity
Nation
" You can't 'control' a Mars mission from Earth. The Mars mission is going to have to be controlled by the people on Mars... There is just too much involved that is out of sight of Earth. "
Robert Zubrin
People
Control
Earth
" The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak. "
Robert Zubrin
NASA
Steak
Program
" Just think how much poorer we would be today if the world would have had half as many people in the 19th century as it actually did. You can get rid of Thomas Edison or Louis Pasteur; take your pick. "
Robert Zubrin
People
Think
You
" Putin himself made his original fortune in the early 1990s, when he stole the funds that had been entrusted to him to buy food in Europe to relieve the starvation in Leningrad that occurred during the economic collapse following the fall of the Soviet Union. "
Robert Zubrin
Fall
Union
Original
" Instead of forcing everyone to buy health insurance, Congress should pass a law protecting the uninsured from being charged more than the insurance companies are for a given service. "
Robert Zubrin
More
Service
Law
" Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating threat of national bankruptcy can be averted. Furthermore, it is only by reviving American economic growth that the West's global predominance can be sustained, and peace and freedom kept secure around the world. "
Robert Zubrin
World
Growth
American
" Global warming would increase the rate of evaporation from the oceans. This would increase rainfall worldwide. In addition, global warming would lengthen the growing season, thereby increasing still further the bounty of both agriculture and nature. "
Robert Zubrin
Season
Growing
Nature
" The United States has the largest and best navy in the world. "
Robert Zubrin
United
Best
Navy