Political Quotes

“one of the things I love about the Senator from Indiana is he understands there is a Golden Rule. We are one another's neighbors, and we need to treat others the way we want to be treated. States need to treat other States the way they would want to be treated. He also understands a very valuable principle: that it is actually possible to have cleaner air, cleaner water, and strengthen our economy. When I was an undergrad at Ohio State, a midshipman there, I remember a time up north of us in Cleveland, OH, when the Cuyahoga River caught on fire. The kind of smog we have now in parts of the country, running in places in California, when I was stationed in California in the Navy for a while--there are days when I ran that I knew I wasn't doing a good thing for my lungs. We have done a lot better than that. While we cleaned up rivers like the Cuyahoga River and we cleaned up the air in a lot of places in the country, we still have work to do. We have made those changes and those improvements and developed technology that we have been able to sell all over the world. That is a good thing. I thank my friend for getting up at this hour of the day and joining us here and for his leadership, not just in Indiana but here in the Senate. It has been a joy. Thank you. I want to go back to what I was talking about earlier--Scott Pruitt's views. I think they are extreme, uninformed views on mercury regulation. Mr.…”