Given that the press is held in abysmally low regard by the American public, as delineated in survey upon survey, it would be hard to divert taxpayer money without demanding some public accountability.

FORBES: Medialand

Instead, Eximbank seems to be whistling past this graveyard by simply relying upon the assertion that Gazprom possesses a positive hard currency cash flow that can be accessed.

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The shame of it is that whoever wins this sad and unrealistic programme will be launched upon a career that they have not earned in the time honoured way of hard graft over years and years of song writing, touring and recording.

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It would be a mistake to have one be conditional upon the other precisely for the reasons that you mention, that -- agreement is hard.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

So there had been progress in that the -- more people now are aware of what the playing field looks like, where the compromises can be found, and what it takes to build upon a smaller package to the biggest possible package, and the hard choices that getting from small to big require.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing