Political Quotes

“Madam President, I rise to discuss climate change, which is a great crisis currently facing our country and our planet. Let me start with a statement that is sometimes controversial in this Chamber: I believe in science. Here are three simple scientific facts: Climate change is real; it is caused by humans; and we are running out of time to fix our troubles. Here are three more scientific facts: The ocean and the air are getting hotter; storms are getting stronger; and flooding is getting worse. These facts are widely accepted throughout the world, but the President and Senate Republicans refuse to acknowledge these basic truths. Together, they routinely dismiss the impacts of climate change and deny the clear evidence that we must take action. They refuse even to say the words ``climate change.'' That is not leadership. Here is the thing about the facts: Refusing to believe them doesn't mean that they will go away. While a small handful--a tiny minority--of my colleagues across the aisle acknowledge that maybe climate change is real, they say that actually doing anything about it would just be too expensive, that the problem is too big to solve, and that we should just give up now--close our eyes and plug our ears again. Yet ignoring our problems has a much bigger price tag than the commonsense solutions we should already be pursuing. Our coasts are threatened by ever-stronger storms that can destroy our homes and devastate our largest cities.…”