Political Quotes

“Madam President, I will speak on this bill before us tomorrow and matters about the budget, the deficit, and how it ought to be solved, and it has to be solved. I will reserve comments on that until tomorrow. In the meantime, what I wish to point out to the Senate is that we had a very significant benefit to not only the Florida citrus industry but to the worldwide citrus industry, because there is a bacterial disease and, of all things, it is called citrus greening. Well, it is anything but that, because what it does is it kills a citrus tree within 5 years. It has infected every grove in Florida. When I say the worldwide citrus industry is being threatened, I mean just that. This strain of bacteria came somewhere from Asia and has been imported not only into the United States but into a lot of other countries that have moderate climates, warm climates, humid climates. There is another version that came from a different part of the world that is not as virulent. But what happens is this bacteria that has now been brought into this country--it is in Brazil as well, another major citrus-producing country--and it is carried by a little insect called a psyllid. The little psyllid carrying this bacteria bites into the tree, the bacteria gets into the sap, and it will kill the tree in 5 years, and there is no known cure.…”