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  • I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years. -- Richard Linklater
  • I get out in my boat and go fishing inshore and offshore. -- Rickie Fowler
  • The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations. -- Janet Napolitano
  • Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive. -- Jeanne Shaheen
  • Many large brands are now just marketing machines for what's being made offshore. -- Chad Hurley
  • America's moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it's become a nation of middlemen. -- Andrew Dominik
  • It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring. -- Julian Assange
  • A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal. -- Frederick W. Smith
  • People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters. -- Daniel Yergin
  • I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there. -- Edward Burtynsky
  • Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations. -- Bernie Sanders
  • The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources. -- Tom Allen
  • The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States. -- Frederick W. Smith
  • Clients do not expect the infrastructure to be any less reliable just because the service is being delivered from an offshore location; thus, the uptime requirements justify the expense. -- Sanjay Kumar
  • I love taking the boat to the Farne Islands, a few miles offshore. It has a National Trust bird sanctuary with seals and every sort of seabird you can imagine. -- Kevin Whately
  • I will stay living in Staffordshire. Other people would be moving offshore. I am reasonably happy to help support the British economy. I have done very well out of Britain. -- John Caudwell
  • Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home. -- Ted Strickland
  • I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people. -- Lewis Black
  • I think, often with Australian films, if an Australian film has been given the seal of approval by an offshore festival or an offshore release, then it does mean a lot to a local audience. -- Joel Edgerton
  • Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger. -- Vivek Wadhwa
  • I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going. -- George Strait
  • Yahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, making itself subject to Chinese legal jurisdiction. It didn't have to do that. It could have provided a service hosted offshore only. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
  • Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and packing up and going home. -- Chellie Pingree
  • There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route. -- Rose George
  • I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes. -- Warren Buffett
  • Barack Obama now says he is open to offshore oil drilling. So, apparently, when he promised change, he was talking about his mind. -- Jay Leno
  • If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I'm selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here -- Mark Cuban
  • We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him What's that all over your face? -- Billy Nungesser
  • On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes. -- Molly Ivins
  • In America, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. One of the reasons why companies have so much money offshore is because it's cheaper! -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • In America, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. One of the reasons why companies have so much money offshore is because it's cheaper! -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • I've always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I'm open to anything. We've spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities in real estate outside the United States. -- Sam Zell
  • WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon. -- Julian Assange
  • Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound. -- Ilana Mercer
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