Political Quotes

“I want to bring us back to the ground. This is what happened in the Los Angeles region now about a month ago: Fires burning out of control; people thrown out of bed; people losing their homes--and we cannot go back. In Los Angeles City alone, 26,000 homes were red or yellow tagged. I say to my friends: Please let us get back to the reason we are here today--the emergency supplemental appropriations. Referring to this picture, this is the way the faces of the emergency workers looked on that day. For your information--and you may be interested--they are digging people out of a house that crumbled. I know my colleagues would rather not look at this. Obviously, they would not. And they are fortunate that they can look away. But I have to tell you that these emergency workers cannot forget the dead bodies that came out of this home. We will have time to debate ISTEA. We will have time to get into these very important matters that Senators wish to raise. But I hope that we will get back to the heart of what brings us here today and pass this bill.”