Political Quotes

They are there because Congress put them there.

I encourage my colleagues in Congress, from both sides of the aisle, to come together today and offer positive solutions.

There was a United States senator once from Illinois named Barack Obama who got into the SAFETEA-LU Bill that you could use a half a percent of your SAFETEA-LU money to build the road construction work force of the future, women, people of color, poor people.

It is a pleasure to join you today and discuss what we know is the biggest challenge of our time, climate change.