Political Quotes

“We're talking about common sense. Unfortunately, I don't think we're hearing much of that coming out of the other side because they're talking out of both sides of their mouth here. How in the world does a 20 percent reduction in the number of cement plants in the United States, out of the 100 that we have, how does that 20 percent loss, or estimation of 18 to 20 cement plants, equal more jobs? I'm a little lost. I know I'm a freshman here, but I'm lost as to how, when we're shutting down businesses, that equals more jobs. I'm also curious about how in the world we can call this a Maximum Achievable Control Technology when people in the industry and people outside the industry say it's not achievable. We might as well call it the ``maximum dreamed-up control technology.'' We've got to introduce some common sense to this. Now, we can solve all of our pollution issues coming out of cement plants by shutting every single one of them down. We can shut every single one of those 100 plants down here in the United States. I do not think that India is going to shut theirs down. I don't think China is going to be shutting theirs down. I know Indonesia is not going to be shutting theirs down. I'm betting our friends and neighbors in Canada aren't going to be shutting theirs down. So we can shut down every single cement plant. That's not going to solve our problems, though, because we have to keep going further. We've got to shut down every power plant.…”