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Robert Zubrin Quotes

Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.

– Robert Zubrin

The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.

– Robert Zubrin

The revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly amassing data on countless law-abiding American citizens has aroused great concern about the potential threat such an effort poses to liberty.

– Robert Zubrin

What Russia really needs is not gay rights but human rights, and the rule of law.

– Robert Zubrin

I think that when humans get around to exploring and building cities and towns on Mars, it will be viewed as one of the great times of humanity, a time when people set foot on another world and had the freedom to make their own world.

– Robert Zubrin

Global warming would increase the rate of evaporation from the oceans. This would increase rainfall worldwide. In addition, global warming would lengthen the growing season, thereby increasing still further the bounty of both agriculture and nature.

– Robert Zubrin

If we are to assess the rationality of government expenditures to protect the lives of Americans through massive domestic surveillance, we need to compare this program to others aimed at saving American lives.

– Robert Zubrin

The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba’s halls of power need to be held accountable.

– Robert Zubrin

Were the United States to pass a law requiring all cars to be methanol-capable flex-fuel vehicles, or simply repeal EPA regulations that prevent such conversions from being carried out privately, our immense natural-gas capacity could make a dramatic entrance into the liquid-fuel market.

– Robert Zubrin

The United States should give former NSA contractor Edward Snowden immunity from prosecution in exchange for congressional testimony.

– Robert Zubrin

I don’t think we should have to do a Mars mission on the basis of hysteria. I think we should do a Mars mission on the basis of a deliberate judgment that what we want to do is open up a new planet for humanity… that we are continuing to be a nation of pioneers.

– Robert Zubrin

It should be noted that the EPA’s banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.

– Robert Zubrin

No one can prevent hurricanes, but prosperous communities are much better able to withstand them than poor ones.

– Robert Zubrin

The United States has the largest and best navy in the world.

– Robert Zubrin

Despite being bailed out – in some cases repeatedly – by the public purse, the automakers have shown little public spirit.

– Robert Zubrin

What the world needs most for its stability, and what the U.S. needs for its national security, is economic growth, which is driven first and foremost by expanded carbon use.

– Robert Zubrin

Trillions of dollars in out-of-control entitlement spending cannot be remedied by cuts in NASA, or even in the entire discretionary budget, defense included. Rather, the financial bleeding needs to be staunched where the hole is and nowhere else.

– Robert Zubrin

Snowden and NSA leaders should be brought together face-to-face for questioning in public by a congressional investigatory committee, with both parties allowed to make their points and to counter the assertions of the other. If Snowden is lying, it will come out. If the NSA is lying, it will come out.

– Robert Zubrin

America is a country defined by a set of ideas, and when people choose to accept those ideas, they should be able to become Americans, as fully so as any – and perhaps more so than most – regardless of how recently they or their ancestors arrived upon our shores. This is the true American tradition, which as conservatives we must defend.

– Robert Zubrin

The policy of the Obama administration is to employ regulatory strangulation to drive up the price of energy. This must be exposed and opposed for what it is: a policy of forced economic contraction.

– Robert Zubrin

Nothing could do more harm to America’s national security than a carbon-restricted, depressed economy that would make funding our military impossible.

– Robert Zubrin

The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak.

– Robert Zubrin

Mars is key to humanity’s future in space. It is the closest planet that has all the resources needed to support life and technological civilization. Its complexity uniquely demands the skills of human explorers, who will pave the way for human settlers.

– Robert Zubrin

There are many elements needed to secure economic growth. Certainly, people must be politically free to innovate, invest, build, and create things, and they must be incentivized to do so by knowing they can keep the rewards for their efforts.

– Robert Zubrin

Instead of forcing everyone to buy health insurance, Congress should pass a law protecting the uninsured from being charged more than the insurance companies are for a given service.

– Robert Zubrin

In addition to virtually banning methanol outright, the EPA has created regulations to prevent cars from being modified by small businesses to optimize their performance, including through the use of methanol.

– Robert Zubrin

The problem is that the automobile companies are not independent entities capable of pursuing their own interests. Rather, they are owned and controlled by organizations that are much more heavily invested in oil.

– Robert Zubrin

The issue comes down to this: The NSA metadata-collection program costs lots of money, and had funds not been expended on it, they could have been used to support other programs that might have been far more effective in saving American lives.

– Robert Zubrin

Nothing could do more to help the world’s poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful.

– Robert Zubrin

The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.

– Robert Zubrin

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