Political Quotes

“let me just pick out a couple of headlines here. ``The best deal? Plan McConnell backs brings in quick cash, but would ultimately kill off small farms.'' ``Untimely demise. McConnell plan kills tobacco program too fast.'' These are in the Record. My colleague, Senator McConnell, referred to Congressman Ron Lewis who is for his position. Well, let me just say this, that Congressman Ron Lewis said that blood would run through Congress before he would give up the fight for the quota system. Then all of a sudden he now is for selling out. The Republican nominee to replace me for the U.S. Senate is for the LEAF program, not for the side that Senator McConnell is on. So it raises a lot of suspicion in the minds of my folks back home. Are Senator McConnell and Senator Lugar supporting the manufacturers or are they supporting the farmer? Because if the Lugar plan would go into effect, it would save the tobacco manufacturers a minimum of $1 billion a year over the next 25 years. And so when you have one major statewide official in Kentucky, elected official, representing the tobacco farmers in Kentucky for one position, the others the other way--our Governor supports the LEAF plan--I just do not understand. Maybe it is the big bucks for the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee to kill this bill and, in fact, killing the bill, then can say that the farmers continue to grow as they are. But then everybody is worried about their demise.…”