Political Quotes

“I come before my colleagues and our great Nation today to state my strongest opposition to a proposal that some people view as nuclear lunacy. Some of my colleagues may have heard of this reckless initiative circulating around Capitol Hill, that would give birth to the world's largest nuclear waste cesspool--right smack in the middle amongst Pacific island nations and in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Mr. Speaker, after approximately 50 years of nuclear testing in the Pacific, where hundreds of the world's most lethal nuclear weapons have been detonated, would you not think Mr. Speaker, that the peoples and the environment of the Pacific have suffered enough from nuclear poisoning and contamination? Apparently not--as a group of investors from New York and Russia--yes, Russian--are pushing the idea of commercially developing Palmyra Atoll, a United States possession in the Pacific, as an international storage site for spent nuclear fuel and plutonium. These investors are prepared to sacrifice the health and welfare of millions of men, women, and children who reside in the Pacific, for the billions of dollars these investors intend to make in annual revenues.”