SELECTED QUOTATIONS from remarks on energy policy by Senator Obama, Glendale High School, Springfield, Missouri, July 30, 2008:
[Referring to record profits by ExxonMobil and other oil companies:] Makin' money hand over fist. Makin' out like bandits.
Now the latest scheme is, well, we're gonna drill offshore.
[This] is what Washington does. It pats you on the back and says we're gonna do something. And in the meantime, the oil companies are shoving this thing down the throats of Congress because they know everybody wants to try to pretend like they're doing something about the energy crisis. And [the oil companies] end up making out like bandits again.
[L]et's make the oil companies drill where they've already got leases, since we've given [the leases] to 'em.
I transcribed Mr. Obama's remarks on energy because they're important and because I could not find a transcript elsewhere. You can read the full transcript here.
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