Political Quotes

“again I say to my colleagues and to the American people: Wake up America. Mr. Speaker, last week President Chirac of France pushed his nuclear button and exploded 1 of 8 nuclear bombs last week that had more power than was exploded in the atom bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, 50 years ago. Later detonations are expected to follow, each with up to 10 times greater destructiveness than the Hiroshima bomb. Maybe 10 years from now, when that island atoll in the Pacific, the Mururoa Atoll, starts sinking and nuclear contamination enters the marine food chain causing secondary fish poisoning, maybe then one day the millions of Americans living in Hawaii and the Pacific Coast States will say, ``Why did no one tell us about this?'' Mr. Speaker, France has already exploded 164 nuclear bombs in this atoll. What madness. Wake up America. We may also end up the victims of French callousness by poisoning our Pacific environment.”