Political Quotes

“I drive a 1993 Saturn, and I just took it, with my wife, on a trip to North Carolina. We averaged 35 miles a gallon with the air conditioning on. I wanted that on the record so people won't believe I am standing here talking about fuel efficiency and the only car I drive is an SUV. I don't own an SUV. People who want to are certainly entitled to. That is their free choice. ... It was a concession by the Senator on his behalf and on behalf of the cosponsors that America is incapable of developing a technology to make our cars and trucks more fuel efficient--so incapable that if we establish a new fuel efficiency standard, the Senator from Missouri tells us it will cost us thousands of jobs. So we are just going to give up. America is going to walk away, surrender. ... The Senator is prepared to say to us, if that battle is underway, we concede defeat to all the foreign automobile manufacturers. America just cannot keep up. We are just going to fall behind, and our workers are going to lose their jobs.”