Jay Leno Quotes
In his first speech as Speaker, Boehner thanked his loved ones - tobacco lobbyists, the oil companies, the CEOs.
Leno, Jay. Monologue. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC, 2011.
The Senator had been criticized for taking campaign contributions from gamblers who were part of organized crime. Although his defense was the legality of gambling in Nevada, despite various efforts to reduce the influence of organized crime in the gambling industry, there is still some involvement and influence.
Begala was commenting on a newspaper expose that President Bush had appointed over 100 lobbyists to administrative government posts in the area for which they had previously lobbied.
The State Department has always been reluctant to have the US Government make an official condemnation of the Turkish. Prior to the end of WWI. Turkey’s Ottoman Empire controlled most of the Middle East which was discovered to be full of oil. Armenia had no oil. The State Department since then (and until the 1970s) it has made it a top priority to advocate for Standard Oil and other American oil companies with the Turks and then the Arabs regardless of the morality of the situation. Despite the fact that virtually every American leader wanted to advocate for the Armenians, the State Department held fast to not
upset Turkey about the Armenian Genocide. Cardashian was the first American who openly stated what the real motivation was. See {638251}, {620602}, {620603}, {620604}, {620605}, and {620606}
ANWR stands for the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve. The oil companies want to drill for oil in the reserve and feel that the risk to the pristine natural area is justified by the value of the oil to the nation. At the beginning of their efforts, they maintained that drilling was "no risk" to the environment. However, after the BP oil spill that did so much damage and could not be controlled for months, most oil companies admit there is some risk, but argue that the benefit is worth it. Opponents do not think the benefit is sufficiently great to risk the wildlife and the rest of the ecology, and some argue that the oil itself is just more fossil fuel that will increase the rate of global warming. The “legal bribery” to which President Carter refers is the loophole in the existing laws and rules of trhe House and Senate which allow members to take money from companies or rich individuals and in return give special access to them and their staffs, provide them with early copies of proposed legislation of committee reports, allows them to draft laws or amendments or statements for their speeches, supports their bids for government contracts, makes inquiries to government agencies on the company’s behalf and provides other services that the company executives will bring them more money that the “campaign contributions” cost them.
James Douglas Muir Leno is an American television host, comedian, and writer. After doing stand-up comedy for years, he became the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 1992 to 2009. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a primetime talk show, titled The Jay Leno Show, which aired weeknights at 10:00pm ET, also on NBC. After The Jay Leno Show was canceled in January 2010 amid a host controversy, Leno returned to host The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on March 1, 2010. He hosted his last episode of The Tonight Show on February 6, 2014. That year, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. Since 2014, Leno has hosted Jay Leno's Garage.
