Political Quotes

“I want to thank my friend from Ohio, who also loves Boudin, for yielding and for bringing up this important issue of energy. Mr. Speaker, American energy means jobs. When we come here on this House floor and talk about ways to get our economy moving again, ways to help Americans who want to get back to work, there is a very clear- cut, commonsense answer to get our economy moving again, and that is just to open up more of the resources of this great Nation. Just on the placard right there above us, Mr. Speaker, inscribed on the walls of this House Chamber is a plaque that starts off, that says, ``Let us develop the resources of our land.'' It is on the House Chamber. And, yet, President Obama, through his policies, through his radical regulations--every single day his unelected bureaucrats wake up figuring out more ways to close off those resources, to kill those American jobs. When my colleagues come here on the House floor and tell story after story about things like the war on coal, these are real wars that this Obama administration is waging upon American workers. The war on coal is real. I have seen it in the eyes of coal workers when I went to my colleague's district in Ohio. We sat out before a whole room full of coal workers, many of them multi-generational. These aren't people who have their first job in the industry. For many of them, their father, their grandfather, worked in the coal industry.…”