Political Quotes

“If we are looking for a larger pool of money that could have just a small part set aside, originally, as I said, I was seeking to set aside 2.5 percent of the national budget for environmental technology development to meet this need on Indian reservations and Native villages. In my judgment safe drinking water does not have any relevance to this. I would like to ask my friend--incidentally, does my friend know that the Safe Drinking Water Act was sponsored by Senator Kennedy and myself following a village-to-village trip in 1969, and it became a national act--and only two projects I know of were established in Alaska--but the program became national and still continues on a national basis but only authorizes research on a regional basis?”