Political Quotes

“My good friend and colleague just asked a very good question: Why don't we have a good American energy policy? You won't get it with this bill. This may be the worst American energy policy I've ever seen. Oil shale, are you kidding me? There is no way that you're going to see oil shale developed within the United States at any time probably in our lifetimes. It didn't work in the 1980s. It's not likely to work in the next two decades. So what's this all about? And by the way, if you happen to be from Colorado, Utah, Arizona, California or New Mexico, you'd want to go, Whoa, wait a minute. Oil shale? That takes a lot of water. We don't have enough water, and you're going to use it for that? I don't think so. Come on. Let's get real here. We do need a real energy policy. You're going to open up ANWR? There are some very special places in this world, and ANWR happens to be one of them. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge happens to be one of those places. You're not going to open it up. And by the way, as for those of us from California, my good friends on the Republican side are always talking about states' rights. They're always talking about states' rights. Your little piece of legislation here strips away the right of California to take care of its own coastline. It's not just authorizing the offshore drilling. You take away California's coastal zone management powers, stripping away from Californians--all 38 million of us--our ability to take care of our own coast.…”