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" The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar. "
Robert Zubrin
World
Automobile
Company
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" 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 20th century saw three great-power confrontations. Two of them turned into total war. We lucked out on the third. Do we really want to roll those dice again? "
Robert Zubrin
Dice
War
Three
" 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. "
Robert Zubrin
Will
Open
Need
" Human population supplies the labor necessary for the creation of wealth; carbon supplies the matter and energy. "
Robert Zubrin
Matter
Creation
Wealth
" As a result of the carbon-dioxide enrichment of the Earth's atmosphere, plants are now growing faster. Furthermore, global warming lengthens the growing season and increases net rainfall. "
Robert Zubrin
Result
Growing
Earth
" The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak. "
Robert Zubrin
NASA
Steak
Program
" 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
" The revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly amassing data on countless law-abiding American citizens has aroused great concern about the potential threat such an effort poses to liberty. "
Robert Zubrin
Effort
Potential
Great
" 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
Seize
Crime
Rich
" The Putin regime's income comes from oil and gas exports. If we could crash the price of these commodities, we could bankrupt the regime. "
Robert Zubrin
Exports
Crash
Price
" The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba's halls of power need to be held accountable. "
Robert Zubrin
Accountable
Cuba
Need
" The EPA must be forbidden to seize or destroy the property of any person until and unless such person has been found guilty of a crime in a court of law. "
Robert Zubrin
Court
Seize
Crime
" The danger facing us comes not from lack of resources, but from people who insist that we have run out of resources. If you embrace their idea of a world where there is only so much to go around, then you are endorsing a program of genocide and a war of all against all. "
Robert Zubrin
Embrace
Run
People
" No one can prevent hurricanes, but prosperous communities are much better able to withstand them than poor ones. "
Robert Zubrin
Much
Hurricanes
Than
" Despite being bailed out - in some cases repeatedly - by the public purse, the automakers have shown little public spirit. "
Robert Zubrin
Some
Purse
Public
" 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
" Snowden and NSA leaders should be brought together face-to-face for questioning in public by a congressional investigatory committee, with both parties allowed to make their points and to counter the assertions of the other. If Snowden is lying, it will come out. If the NSA is lying, it will come out. "
Robert Zubrin
Committee
Lying
Out
" The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense. "
Robert Zubrin
Purpose
Government
Defense
" The bedrock foundation of any rational immigration policy should be to benefit America rather than benefiting potential or existing immigrants, or any other specific group, whether favorable or antagonistic to them. "
Robert Zubrin
America
Foundation
Group
" 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
" 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
" Ideas have consequences. "
Robert Zubrin
Consequences
Ideas
" 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
" We need to improve our horrible position within the petroleum game by eliminating the EPA and other crippling bureaucracies that have turned the U.S. from the game's biggest winners into its worst losers. "
Robert Zubrin
Winners
Need
Improve
" In the courtroom of science, if you have the facts on your side, you don't need a gun - and juries would be well advised to distrust the case of those parties who choose to use weapons to silence adversarial witnesses. "
Robert Zubrin
Need
Facts
Gun
" The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental. "
Robert Zubrin
Carbon
Human
Well-Being
" People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done. "
Robert Zubrin
Space
Fate
Exploration
" Putin and many of his gang may have once been Communists, but they are not that today. Rather, they have embraced a new totalitarian political ideology known as 'Eurasianism.' "
Robert Zubrin
Ideology
Gang
Today
" 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
" 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