Elizabeth May Quotes

The rapid increase in the production and transportation of crude oil requires additional vigilance for the continued safe movement of this commodity.

Nearly 30 million people ride Amtrak each year, and they should board the trains knowing that safety is a paramount priority.

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

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.

Keystone will deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, North Dakota, and Montana to Gulf Coast refineries.

You've got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn't a version two or three if there isn't a great version one.

We know that, too often, oil and other hazardous materials are shipped across the country on aging tankers. Too many communities have seen what happens when trains derail and in some cases catch fire.

Pipelines are the safest way to move oil.

We always need to keep working to improve safety - not just the cars; the tracks and everything are very safe now.

I never predict freight rates; nobody can do that.

The safest way to ship bitumen is by rail. Now, there are other things that you get doing it that way. There's probably more greenhouse gases in shipping it by rail. I think certainly there are.

People say, 'Dream big!' - but you have to think about the logistics. It's not just coming up with a great idea; it's how you can sell or market or promote that great idea.

Both Boeing and Ford are absolutely committed to safe and efficient transportation.

A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.

Cars would be safer on rails!

Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

So many things could go wrong, on any film. I've been out in L.A. for eight years and I've been acting professionally for a long time, and you realize that you have to prepare and work hard, but you never know what could go wrong.

If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.

The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.

Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.