Political Quotes

“I rise to speak against the DeMint motion and in favor of the Boxer motion, which takes on the issue of global warming in a way that is consistent with the information and the facts that we have today. The DeMint motion is a throwback to 10, 11 years ago when everybody around here, including myself, was saying we better watch out and not do anything about global warming until the undeveloped world acts. We better sit back and do nothing. You know what. We cannot do that anymore. This is a time of change. This is a time where we have to challenge the status quo. This is a time when we need to stand up as the leading country in the world and say that we can fight global warming, and we can win this fight. As a matter of fact, if we approach it with hope, not fear, we are going to create tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of new jobs. We are going to get our people off of fossil fuel, not having to worry about gas prices anymore, and we will create new technologies that will spur us on to an economic renaissance. But what happens with the DeMint motion, he gives China and India a veto power over what we should be doing. Imagine sitting back and saying we are not going to do anything about human rights until China acts. We are not going to do anything about a better educational system until India acts.”