Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Tonko, for being such a leader on these issues. As I was about to turn around to the Speaker and sign off, I realized I had left off a major piece of the infrastructure. We have a major drought in California, and we know that for California to be able to address this issue in the future, we are going to have to prepare by building reservoir capacity. Well, I am not supposed to speak directly to anybody on the floor, but we are going to be putting forth a series of bills to build reservoirs in California. That is another critical piece of the infrastructure. It may be the pipes. It may be the plumbing. It may be the sanitation system. But we desperately need to store water in California, not only in surface storage, but also to store that water in the underground aquifers. If we do that, when the droughts which come occasionally to California, as they have in the past, we will be prepared to deal with them because we will have set aside the water that we needed. Somebody asked me about this a few days ago, and they said: Well, why do we need to do that? Well, people will just consume it. I said: Not if they listen and read Exodus in the Bible. It is there--7 years of good, 7 years of bad. You had better put it aside during the 7 years of good. So that is what we intend to do. We will be introducing legislation later this week on building one of the major reservoirs in California. With that, Mr.…”