Political Quotes

“First of all, I'm not on your list of 93 that signed that discharge petition, but that's because the line was too long. I hope that I can be there tomorrow when we're on the floor for votes, because you have to do that, of course--as any student knows of this Chamber--you have to sign the discharge petition in the well of the House. And when I was available to do that, the line was way too long. So hopefully tomorrow I will put you over 100 and get closer to the 218. I want to say just a couple of things that perhaps haven't been said yet and enter into a dialogue with my good friend, Dr. Gingrey. First of all, when we talk about Alaska, I did support drilling in Alaska multiple times over the last couple of years. It was adopted, actually, in the House and in the Senate with some bipartisan votes, and sadly, President Clinton vetoed that bill 10 years ago saying it's 10 years away. Well, here we are today. We had a couple of very good provisions in that bill that were important; that all of the oil drilled in Alaska had to stay in the United States.”