"Few issues are of the importance that a clean environment is to our State, free of toxics, free of pollution."
"The current Administration has also failed to provide sufficient funding to run the Superfund program."
"The last 8 years, in my view, at EPA, have been very disappointing."
"Global warming, for example, the most serious environmental threat that we face, we haven't done very much at the Federal level."
"I think the most important thing to glean from her resume is that she has helped our home State in becoming one of the most environmentally aware and environmentally responsible States in the Nation."
"I think it is a testament to her that those members of our State who have been victims of the only Superfund site that was ever closed and reopened are here today in testament to the type of leadershi..."
"I am delighted to be able to greet Lisa Jackson to this Committee."
"We are going to work with you. We know each other and I feel in some ways like you are part of my group."
"we have to try whatever we can to eliminate or certainly reduce this attack on the well-being of our families, our children, our grandchildren."
"I am one of the founders of that firm."
"Their reaction was that coal ash is not harmful and here I quote a spokesman there, does have some heavy metals within it, but it is not toxic or anything."
"The company that was started by three young people from Paterson, New Jersey, without any resources at all now produces an index that provides the freshest data that are available."
"To see it with that threatening material almost on the front porch is certainly not a sight that any of us like to see."
"I heard Mr. Sunshine talk about his concern as a taxpayer. We all do the same thing here and are concerned about Government spending."
"This spill, this ugly material was allowed to cover areas of residence and community and that we wind up, though this spill was nearly 50 times bigger than the Exxon Valdez oil spill."
"This gentleman, excuse me, this person should not have been on the streets, point plain. And mistakes, in my opinion, were made."
"He said nothing. We put him in handcuffs and we walked the individual into the office. I personally helped the detective to sit him down. And I left."
"I don't think words can describe the level of emotion I feel about this individuals and all the individuals involved and what they've done to these families."
