04/28/2009
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"If we want an economy that creates jobs and improves infrastructure in all our communities and allows our businesses and our workers to compete around the world, then instead of running from these opp..."
"We cannot have a 21st century economy built on a 19th century model. That does not make environmental sense."
"People are not stupid. They see what is happening; they know it threatens not only their air and their water, but it threatens their homes and their livelihoods."
"We show those workers no respect if we do not plan now for how we are going to protect their communities from flooding and drought and economic upheaval."