Evan Smith Quotations

The worry is if we have a normally cold winter and reasonably steady economic growth, you could exit the winter with fairly low levels of product inventory.

His challenge is not going to be Democrats in Washington, it is going to be Republicans.

With this kind of hiccup in refinery capacity, in stretched markets like California, you could see over $4 a gallon in gas.

We would be buying on days like this. We're only a few months into the year, and 2006 will be a record earnings year.

The potential for a weakening dollar is definitely a driver for gold. We could see $700 an ounce in two years.

They are trying to produce as much oil and gas as is reasonably possible. The growth in demand that's been driving prices higher will extend well into the next decade.

His strengths, I think, begin with his independence. He's independent of everything and of everybody. And sometimes he's independent of his own brain. His mouth is independent of his brain. But I think the fact that he's willing to take on the establishment, however he defines it on a given day. Republicans, Democrats, you know people in power. He has tapped into a dissatisfaction with the accepted order.

I'd like to see the first time that Bush and Tom DeLay get into a trap.

I don't think the government should be involved, trying to change the supply-and-demand equation here. I really don't think anything they might do will have much of a difference anyway.

I don't think what the president talked about today will have much of an impact (on prices).