Political Quotes

“Chicago, Mr. Chairman, is a great city. We have great trees, we have great parks; and the last time I checked, we still had Sammy Sosa. But 2 years ago in Chicago, residents of the Ravenswood community, in my congressional district, discovered that the trees in their neighborhood had fallen pry not to the New York Yankees but to the Asian Longhorned Beetle. This Asian Longhorned Beetle, Mr. Chairman, is a pest which destroys trees by burrowing into their trunks. Within weeks many of the trees which had shaded neighborhoods for years had to be removed to stop the spread of the Asian Longhorned Beetle. The Asian Longhorned Beetles are not natives to the United States. They are stowaways who came here in packing crates from Asia. These beetles infest our trees by burrowing inside and hatching larvae. This destroys the tree's structure from inside out. And once the tree is infected, Mr. Chairman, there is no way to save it except that it must be destroyed in order to prevent it from infecting other trees.”