Edward Markey actually said...

"We need to act with a desperate sense of urgency so that, when our grandchildren talk about slavery, they are going to talk about it as an historic relic."

"We cannot very well run around the world and say, 'You need to stop doing this,' when we are not doing it ourselves."

"The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act brings together these two subjects to support healthy fisheries and the fishermen and coastal communities that depend upon them."

"Well, the cod and lobster--they need cold water. And the lobster are voting with their claws as they move northward, and the cod are voting with their fins as they move northward."