Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
William Blaine "Bill" Richardson IIIis an American politician who was 30th Governor of New Mexico, from 2003 to 2011. He was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy Secretary in the Clinton administration and has also served as a U.S. Congressman, chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. In December 2008, he was nominated for the cabinet-level position of Secretary of Commerce in the first Obama administration but withdrew a month later...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 November 1947
CityPasadena, CA
CountryUnited States of America
This is the right time to do this,
This is unacceptable, and frankly, lends credibility to accusations of price gouging, ... Nobody should profit from tragedy.
This is typically Iraqi behavior. Once again they are repudiating the Security Council resolutions. They are repudiating the agreement they made with the secretary-general, they are blustering, they are going out of their way to be defiant and they are playing games.
This is the wrong resolution at the wrong time, ... It will undermine our efforts to get the peace process back on track and hurt everyone's interests, including those it is most intended to help.
Zero (output reduction) is what we have in mind, ... But we are realistic ... I did not get any commitment. We ask for as small a cut as possible.
This is good government at its best -- no loopholes, no misunderstandings and no exceptions.
This is a price problem, ... We don't want to manipulate energy markets.
This is a political campaign, ... I am the energy secretary for the Clinton-Gore administration. I want to fix the problem and I want to fix it with you. Oil industry profits are up. American people have questions about the high price of oil.
This is not an attack against the United States. This is an Iraqi attack against the United Nations and the Security Council.
So what we want to do is send a message that the Democrats and Sen. Kerry are positive -- that we're going to talk about what we're going to do on the economy, on health care, on foreign policy, on national security and not make this into a big bashing of the president,
So what we have is the military option pretty active right now. It's very easy for this crisis to end, and that is for (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein to simply to allow free access to all sites by the U.N. inspectors and let the U.N. inspection team do its job, not politicize it and to stop threatening its neighbors. That's the solution.
Oil prices right now and prices at the pump -- there is no correlation.
During the 2004 legislative session I proposed and the Legislature approved a bill to waive the state sales tax on efficient hybrid automobiles, ... Today, hybrid-buyers in New Mexico are saving big bucks when they purchase one of these efficient hybrids. The savings on this Escape, for instance, are about $800.
Development of this private industry in New Mexico will allow NASA and other international government space agencies to focus their efforts on exploring the further reaches of space, including manned travel to Mars and beyond.