Political Quotes

“I came early to our office yesterday morning, and I opened the door and took the newspapers inside and put them out on the reading table. And as I took them out, seven of them, four newspapers and three of the kind of inside-the-beltway papers, I noted the lead story above the fold. In the Sun there were two stories: ``Demand Eats Supply, swiftly rising food prices are undoing progress in fighting hunger globally''; and another above the fold headline: ``Energy Bill Aid Payouts on Rise.'' Then I picked up the Washington Times and noticed an above the fold headline, ``Bush Lays Gas Blame on Congress.'' And then I picked up the Washington Post, a major headline above the fold: ``Syphoning Off Corn to Fuel Our Cars.'' And then the Wall Street Journal, the biggest headline above the fold, with a graphic and picture above it: ``Grain Companies' Profit Soar As Global Food Crisis Mounts.'' And then I took the three inside-the-beltway newspapers to put them on the reading table, and I looked at the headlines there, on the front page: ``Gas Prices Fuel Effort to Jam GOP.'' ``Alexander Eyes Energy Agenda.'' The first of those was Politico; the second was Roll Call. And the third, The Hill: ``Politics at the Pump.'' So, Mr. Speaker, the seven papers that our office gets, every one of them yesterday had as their leading story above the fold something about energy prices and food prices, which, of course, are related.…”