Political Quotes

“Let's get this straight. So what we're going to do is, we've got a hole in the ocean that's pouring out this really sticky, yucky oil. I mean, we're counting on BP to clog that up. We don't really have that good of a solution on the cleanup thing because the Governor is saying, we want to build some sand berms to stop the oil from washing into our wetlands. And the government says you can't do it, and then they say you can. And when they start to do it, they say you can't. So we're not really taking care of the mitigation piece of it. Instead, our solution is, Hey, let's tax everybody. That seems a little counterintuitive. So we're going to tax them twice. One, we're going to tax them when the government taxes them on energy; and, two, they are going to get hammered because the cost of energy is going to go up because we don't have the whole oil basin of the gulf, which is a pretty good source of oil, to give us lower-priced fuel. That just seems a little bit counterintuitive, doesn't it? It's a little bit like that graveyard spiral. We keep twisting downward. We need somebody to firewall a stick, kick the rudders right, and then pull us out. My good friend, Congressman Franks from Arizona, was it 15 or 16 or 17 you owned your first oil rig? We need a little bit of help on this.”