Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from Rhode Island, a former member of the Intelligence Committee and an activist in this area. Madam President and colleagues, I am happy to be on the floor with a bipartisan group of people who are really worried about our country, and we are worried about its survivability in the event of a cyber attack. Cyber attacks are not the work of science fiction, though they were once written about. That which was once science fiction is now a hard reality that could cripple our country and bring it to the ground. We have to come up with the legislative framework to be able to protect dot.com and also be able to protect critical infrastructure. I am talking about something that could create catastrophic economic damage, severe degradation. Why am I obsessed about it? Let's take the grid. There are those who say America runs on oil. Barbara Mikulski says it runs on electricity. You cannot have a community without electricity. Look at what happened to us in this north capital region when, 2 weeks ago, we had this freaky storm. We nearly came to our knees. Metro couldn't function, stoplights were out, and communication went down. People didn't have access to many communications. Their homes were without electricity, food went bad, and tempers rose. We could not function as a community. The good news is that no matter how late the utilities were in coming in to respond, they could turn the lights back on, they could turn the electricity back on.…”