Political Quotes

“I appreciate the opportunity to talk for a little while tonight about some challenges that we are facing as a nation. Mr. Speaker, I have never run for office before, and I will tell you I never had intentions of running for office. After sitting home watching from my home State of Louisiana, watching what is happening in Washington, and watching the dysfunction in this Nation, I think that the major motivation for running for office was more out of frustration than anything else--the disparity, the inconsistency in policies, decisions being made that lack, I think, the public interest and are being made more so as a result of political decisions. Unfortunately, what I am going to talk about tonight I don't think will be the only subject that I end up coming back and talking about over the next several months. It seems that, oftentimes, the Federal Government's decisions, their policies, their regulations seem to lack any type of connectivity to what is actually happening on the ground--decisions being made in a vacuum, decisions lacking, I think, the true expertise. What I am going to talk about tonight is an example of that. This picture right here is a picture or the result of bad Federal policy. Now, the administration would lead you to believe that this picture is what is going to happen by building the Keystone pipeline. This is oil, Mr. Speaker.…”