John Dingell actually said...

"Food and Drug does not have the resources to do this."

"It was to depoliticize the approval of projects and to see to it that we had the information we needed."

"I would caution that if you speed it up too fast you are going to re-politicize this and make a fine mess out of the thing."

"I think the Canadians are going to do this whether we like it or not, and they are either going to build a pipeline going west or going south."