Peter DeFazio Quotes

• In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon’s fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Nation, Enjoy, Enjoying

• But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Election

• A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government’s legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government and Rule, Responsibility

• About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marketing, Commodity

• In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Security

• It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attacking

• There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Business, Family

• Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Men And Women

• First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in America

  Tags in Commodity

• Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in America, Economy, Environment

• In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Country, Economy

  Tags in Margin

• Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Money

• Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Country

  Tags in War

• Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Security, Misunderstanding

• Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Security, Government

• The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Security

• The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Peace, United States

• The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States, Freedom And Liberty

• Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Majority

• The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interesting

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Birth:	27th May, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

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