Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans' agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won't do much for the American people. So why is this bill so urgent? Money and power.
Interpretation
The quote critiques the prioritization of the Keystone Pipeline by Republicans, highlighting concerns about environmental risks and motivations of money and power.
Elizabeth Warren questions the Republican focus on the Keystone Pipeline, pointing out that despite its significant environmental risks and limited benefits to the public, it remains a top agenda item. She suggests that the urgency behind this legislative push is driven by financial interests and the desire for political influence rather than the welfare of the people or the environment.
In practice
During a debate on energy policy, this quote could be used to emphasize the need for environmentally sustainable practices.
Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.
There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden.
Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.
Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?
One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.
It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.
Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
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