Political Quotes

“as I said earlier to my colleagues and to the American people, the French Government has already exploded 164 nuclear bombs in the atmosphere and under the Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia, in the South Pacific. Mr. Speaker, first French officials said the tremendous amount of nuclear contamination contained in this atoll should be contained for 1,000 years. Now, these same French officials are saying it may be 100 years. Mr. Speaker, the consensus now among the scientists is that Mururoa Atoll will collapse within 10 to 50 years. Mr. Speaker, the contamination contained in this atoll is equivalent to several Chernobyls in the Ukraine. Mr. Speaker, I was arrested for 16 hours on the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior II, and I wrote these verses to describe the crisis in the South Pacific: You appear in a cloud, like a flash from the West that blinds our vision. From Tahiti Nui, from the Tuamotus, Mangareva, Tubuai, Bora-Bora, Raiatea, Huahine, Tahaa, NukuHiva, Tureia, Mururoa and Fangataufa. Like poisoned fish that float aimlessly from fissured reefs, death moves slowly toward the people from the sun until it is too late. Chirac, Chirac, what have you done?”