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
I believe they're sending signals of wanting to engage, but there are some tough negotiations ahead, ... And I'm not saying that they're going to be easy.
I believe there is some movement in the right direction,
I believe the Bush Administration deserves credit for putting pressure, and saying that authoritarian regimes have to go.
Carbon sequestration is a whole new area of energy-related research,
What is important to us is not just that OPEC and other nations make a decision to increase production, but that they do it and get oil into the market because this is not just the United States, ... ...What is most important here is consumer and producing countries need to have a stable price, and that helps them both.
What I should have said, what I didn't take into account, is that the lab culture needs to be changed, ... I didn't take in the human element.
What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,
What I want to do is, I want business leaders, small business, employers, to come together, ... A moderate (increase). A reasonable one that everybody can handle.
We cannot have a full economic recovery, we cannot ensure the security of this country, while the states are in the midst of the worst fiscal crisis in half a century. Direct aid to cash-strapped states is perhaps the most direct way to immediately jump-start an ailing economy.
We want to engage the Chinese, we don't want to isolate them, ... We want to talk to them about nuclear non-proliferation, about warhead safety, about cooperation on science. We're not giving them extra technology, sensitive technology, nuclear information.
What is very important is that the level of increase be a sizable amount and, secondly, that it be done in a timely fashion. That's our objective for that meeting.
We do not know everything, but we know more about the case this morning,
We see a continuity in the energy policies of this new Venezuelan government, ... I was particularly pleased that the opening for energy investment would continue, and existing contracts would be respected.
Vice President Gore does not favor higher gasoline prices for consumers. That is not the case,