Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we are back in our fourth week trying to get a transportation bill through this body. To me, it is a very sad statement about the dysfunction of this body that we spent approximately 3 weeks dithering over a contraception amendment that has nothing to do with the highway bill and other threats to offer foreign policy amendments, and so on. We have a chance today to vote to end this dithering, and the Chamber of Commerce is asking us to do that. The AFL CIO is asking us to do that. One thousand organizations are asking us to do that because they know thousands of businesses and well over 1 million jobs are at stake. I wish to say I heard the tail end of Senator Boozman's talk about the Keystone Pipeline. I wanted to make sure it was on the record--this is from a conversation I had with Senator Durbin--that under this President we are drilling now more than we have ever drilled. Anyone who says ``drill, baby, drill'' doesn't understand that the number of rigs that are now moving are four times as many as in 2008. They don't understand we are now exporting oil. They don't understand the fact that we are importing less. Does that mean we are done? No. The oil companies have more than 50 million acres of approved leases. They ought to drill there and hands off my coast because my coast is an economic gold mine the way it is because we have tourism and recreation and fishing.…”