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" The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers. "
Robert Zubrin
Want
American
Nation
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" The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba's halls of power need to be held accountable. "
Robert Zubrin
Accountable
Cuba
Need
" In August 1994, I was invited to have dinner with House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. At that time, I was a senior engineer working for Martin Marietta Astronautics in Denver, where I had been responsible for inventing a new plan called 'Mars Direct.' "
Robert Zubrin
Plan
New
Time
" Nothing could do more harm to America's national security than a carbon-restricted, depressed economy that would make funding our military impossible. "
Robert Zubrin
Nothing
Security
Impossible
" Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources. "
Robert Zubrin
Agriculture
Resources
Oil
" Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery. "
Robert Zubrin
Discovery
Science
Process
" Europe certainly needs a genuine conservative movement to combat the creeping bureaucratic collectivism that is stifling the human potential of the Continent. "
Robert Zubrin
Conservative
Potential
Human
" Trillions of dollars in out-of-control entitlement spending cannot be remedied by cuts in NASA, or even in the entire discretionary budget, defense included. Rather, the financial bleeding needs to be staunched where the hole is and nowhere else. "
Robert Zubrin
NASA
Budget
Defense
" There are many elements needed to secure economic growth. Certainly, people must be politically free to innovate, invest, build, and create things, and they must be incentivized to do so by knowing they can keep the rewards for their efforts. "
Robert Zubrin
People
Free
Create
" The problem with Russia is not that it has laws restricting promotion of the gay lifestyle. The problem with Russia is that it has no laws that effectively constrain the strong or protect the weak. "
Robert Zubrin
Problem
Promotion
Gay
" Every dollar added to the price of oil weakens America and strengthens her enemies. "
Robert Zubrin
Every
Dollar
Price
" Every dollar cut from the price of oil weakens the enemies of freedom and strengthens America. "
Robert Zubrin
Freedom
Dollar
America
" Traditional Marxism attempted to argue against free enterprise by saying that capitalism causes poverty and that, therefore, socialism is necessary. That didn't work, because it was false. "
Robert Zubrin
Work
Capitalism
Socialism
" The United States has the largest and best navy in the world. "
Robert Zubrin
United
Best
Navy
" No one can prevent hurricanes, but prosperous communities are much better able to withstand them than poor ones. "
Robert Zubrin
Much
Hurricanes
Than
" The policy of the Obama administration is to employ regulatory strangulation to drive up the price of energy. This must be exposed and opposed for what it is: a policy of forced economic contraction. "
Robert Zubrin
Price
Drive
Economic
" 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 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 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
Corruption
Problem
Power
" The facts of the fossil record never justified denying poor people a healthy diet. The facts of the weather record do not justify denying poor people affordable energy. And no set of facts, whatever they may be, can justify denying scientists - or anyone else, for that matter - the right to free speech. "
Robert Zubrin
Energy
Weather
People
" Can we achieve 140 mpg fuel economy? You bet. Just get the bureaucrats out of the way, and Yankee ingenuity will do the rest. "
Robert Zubrin
Rest
Achieve
Economy
" The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental. "
Robert Zubrin
Carbon
Human
Well-Being
" 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
" 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 EPA could act to open the transportation-fuel market to vigorous competition from natural gas as well as coal, biomass, and trash, by legalizing methanol. This would force oil prices down, expand the economy, and create millions of jobs. "
Robert Zubrin
Oil
Create
Competition
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase its price, potentially without limit. "
Robert Zubrin
Limit
Product
Price
" 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. "
Robert Zubrin
World
Power
Pleasure