Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Kentucky for yielding. I want to rise in strong support of the gentleman from Georgia's motion to instruct. This is a strong bipartisan motion that has support not only in the Halls of Congress, but also has support amongst the American people as they look at this proposal. Keystone, our friend in Canada, they have vast oil reserves, and they're going to extract those reserves whether they're used in America or whether they're used in China. So the question is not whether or not Canada is going to go and explore their oil sands, it's whether or not we get the oil from a friend in Canada--1 million barrels a day when it's in operation--or we continue to become more reliant on Middle Eastern oil, oil from countries, in many cases, that use the money that we send--the billions of dollars a day we send to them--against us, against our troops. We have an opportunity to do many things here. We can help secure America's energy independence by saying that's 1 million barrels a day less that we need to get from Middle Eastern countries who don't like us, we can get it from a friend in Canada. They want to send it to us. And oh, by the way, it's going to create about 20,000 American jobs upfront. There's much more to come. The estimates are even higher long term once the pipeline is in operation. This shouldn't even be a dilemma. It's not controversial to most people.…”