Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Senator from Rhode Island has stated in one of the more eloquent fashions details about my State of Florida because he was so passionate about the subject and so unselfish that he wanted to start in other States--North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia--and several places on the east coast of Florida. It is extraordinary. I will leave you with this thought: Every time I hear a Senator such as Senator Whitehouse speak about this subject, and every time I look at a picture of the planet as he has on the poster that says ``Time To Wake Up,'' my mind's eye goes back 28 years ago to the window of our spacecraft on the 24th flight of the space shuttle 203 nautical miles above the Earth, circumnavigating the Earth at 17,500 miles an hour, with a complete revolution of the Earth in 90 minutes. You look back at our planet--which is so beautiful, so colorful, so alive, so creative--and yet when you look at the rim of the Earth, as it falls off into the deep blackness of space, there is a thin, little blue band, and upon closer examination out the window, you can actually see the thin film of what sustains all of our life, the atmosphere. Then, with the naked eye, you can see points on the Earth where we are messing it up. You can see the color contrast of the destruction of the trees in the Amazon, upriver in the Amazon.…”