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Robert Zubrin Quotes

By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere – so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected.

– Robert Zubrin

Federal lawmakers need to change the rules so that vehicles converted to use new fuels can be put on the road; the only restriction should be that they pass the same standard state tests that all other cars do.

– Robert Zubrin

Putting aside for the moment the question of whether human industrial CO2 emissions are having an effect on climate, it is quite clear that they are raising atmospheric CO2 levels. As a result, they are having a strong and markedly positive effect on plant growth worldwide. There is no doubt about this.

– Robert Zubrin

The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subvert Western democracies even as it practiced slave labor at home.

– Robert Zubrin

The anti-American policy is the one that keeps oil prices up. The way to do that is to help OPEC limit the amount of liquid fuel available.

– Robert Zubrin

The key issue is not who is in charge but what. Russia’s problem is constitutional. There is no division of powers. The judges, the police, and the legislature all work for the same people, and there is essentially no trial by jury. As a result, anyone can be arrested and accused of anything, and conviction is almost guaranteed.

– Robert Zubrin

When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase its price, potentially without limit.

– Robert Zubrin

Through our CO2 emissions, we are making the earth a more fertile world.

– Robert Zubrin

The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars.

– Robert Zubrin

We have never been in danger of running out of resources, but we have encountered considerable dangers from people who say we are running out of resources and who say that human activities need to be constrained.

– Robert Zubrin

The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental.

– Robert Zubrin

Europe certainly needs a genuine conservative movement to combat the creeping bureaucratic collectivism that is stifling the human potential of the Continent.

– Robert Zubrin

The pro-American policy is the one that forces oil prices down. The way to do this is to flood the world market with liquid fuel from every source possible.

– Robert Zubrin

The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of its code, with the amount of the penalty set in proportion to the amount of pollutant released by a given defendant, and no penalties imposed in the absence of any pollutant released.

– Robert Zubrin

The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power.

– Robert Zubrin

As one of its first acts after coming into existence, the EPA banned the vital pesticide DDT.

– Robert Zubrin

Prosperous communities are much better able to survive hurricanes or other natural disasters because they have greater resources, both public and private, to fall back upon.

– Robert Zubrin

Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful shorthand, but it is not really accurate.

– Robert Zubrin

The U.S. federal government may be going broke, but it’s not because of NASA.

– Robert Zubrin

Fewer jobs, at lower pay. That’s what Obamacare means.

– Robert Zubrin

The use of hunger as a weapon of political control is a crime against humanity.

– Robert Zubrin

As I explain at some length in my book ‘Energy Victory,’ during World War II, the American strength in oil production was a decisive advantage for the Allies. Airplanes, ships, and tanks all ran on oil, and we controlled the supply.

– Robert Zubrin

We need to improve our horrible position within the petroleum game by eliminating the EPA and other crippling bureaucracies that have turned the U.S. from the game’s biggest winners into its worst losers.

– Robert Zubrin

Every dollar cut from the price of oil weakens the enemies of freedom and strengthens America.

– Robert Zubrin

The Yanukovych regime is a mafia, which regularly threatens, imprisons, murders, or disappears political opponents as well as those whose possessions it covets.

– Robert Zubrin

Would offering the Mars Prize damage NASA? I don’t think so.

– Robert Zubrin

In any economy, the entire population is supported by the part of it that is working. All other things being equal, it thus follows that the most attractive acquisition a society can have is a young adult, whose childhood and education has already been paid for, but whose entire working life still lies ahead.

– Robert Zubrin

I own a small aerospace company that does some business with the U.S. government.

– Robert Zubrin

In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.

– Robert Zubrin

When people have their own money at stake, it’s a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.

– Robert Zubrin

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