Political Quotes

“Madam President, so here is my point: The next time the media writes a big story on Willow and environmental justice and racial equity--which they love to do--and Alaska, they need to include this. This is the truth. They need to include the strong union support. Go talk to the laborers, go talk to the building trades, go talk to Sean McGarvey, Terry O'Sullivan. See what they think about Willow. There is one group that doesn't like Willow. It is the same group that doesn't like anything in America. It is the radical far-left environmental groups that are trying to shut down my State and keep Native Americans, Native Alaskans, impoverished in Alaska. I am not going to let that happen. Here is one final thing. It is funny, not funny--Amusing, not amusing. Again, this is really important. This is about life and death. You have all these stories about Willow in the national media, but what really, really kind of burns me up is there is a story--you know, they talk about the climate bomb, whatever the heck that means; it is not factual. But the one story I never see about Federal lands--real big increases in oil and gas production, real big increases in emissions--that never gets written about, again for our friends in the media--never--is what is going on in New Mexico, what is going on in New Mexico. Well, we know some of the Members, the senior Senator from New Mexico, he loves to come after Alaska projects; I don't know why. Shut them down.…”