Political Quotes

“We all got elected. I have been here 5 years now. You are fairly new to this institution. Everybody comes with a dream. You don't come because you are looking for new business cards. You come because you want to make a difference for folks back home. We all have about 700,000 bosses back home, and they want us to make a difference. Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about some of those differences today. You can't see it from where you are sitting, but I have got a little America's to-do list down here. I didn't have enough paper back in the office to do the entire to-do list. There is a lot out there, as I know you hear every weekend when you go home as well, but I put a couple of the top things out there. {time} 1130 I have ``fix our roads and bridges'' out there--just a terrible infrastructure issue. What separates America in terms of getting our goods to market around the globe is a world-class infrastructure. Investment in that infrastructure has waned in recent years as we have dangerous bridges and we have roads that are in desperate need of repair. That is one of those things--to maintain the postal roads--that the Constitution uniquely assigns to the United States Congress. That is on the to-do list. Update our national WRRDA policy, Mr. Speaker. We are going to have wars on this planet--mark my words--not over oil, but over fresh water.…”