Edward Markey actually said...

"Each year, Grand Canyon National Park generates $700 million dollars in local revenue and supports more than 12,000 jobs."

"Rather than learning a lesson from this unfortunate tragedy, the Republican Majority has again offered legislation that could lead to unchecked uranium mining around Grand Canyon National Park."

"We regard temples and Roman triumphal arches and Gothic cathedrals as a priceless value. . .but we are, as a whole, still in that low state of civilization where we do not understand that it is vandal..."

"H.R. 3155 threatens to return this nation to the low state of civilization President Roosevelt found us in a century ago."