Political Quotes

“It has to do with us in this respect: Illinois is one of a few States, 15 out of 50, where the Governor has the final word on an airport. Our Governor has given consent to this plan to move forward on the airport, and we are memorializing that consent in this agreement. I would like to ask the Senator from Texas, who said that the language of this amendment somehow--at one point he said--threatens safety and lives and at another point calls it a harmless limitation, could I just refer the Senator from Texas to the part that says: The Secretary of Transportation shall ``encourage a locally developed plan.'' That is the operative language. That is the only condition.”