Political Quotes

“I thank Chairman Young very much for this opportunity to be here. Mr. Chairman, ``Maine is Vacationland.'' Everybody in the country and everybody on this floor should know that. In fact, Mr. Chairman, we put ``vacationland'' on our license plates just to make sure everybody knows that. Our population in the great State of Maine is 1.3 million hardy souls, but we have 40 million people vacation in our State every year. We have 3,000 miles of breathtaking coastline and hundreds and hundreds of clear lakes and streams and hundreds of miles of swift-running streams and rivers. Everybody that is stressed out in this country, Mr. Chairman, should go to Maine and have their summer vacation because, Mr. Chairman, the tourist industry in the State of Maine employs about 150,000 people. Maine, Mr. Chairman, is also lobster. There isn't a person in this country who does not relate the great State of Maine to lobsters. Now, I know Mr. Chairman over here has some great critters up in Alaska called crabs, king crabs. Now, they are a good species, but Maine lobsters are a great species, and we need to stand up for our lobsters, Mr. Chairman. On the water in the State of Maine, on the water we have 10,000 jobs that support our lobster industry--10,000. These are folks who pull traps in their stern. We have a terrific staffer, Mr. Chairman, here on this committee, Bill Ball, who got through college pulling lobster traps. It is hard work, very hard work.…”