For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.
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Nationality: American Type: Politician Born: November 23, 1955 |
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.
A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.

