Political Quotes

“Madam President, I am pleased to be here to join my colleagues and Senator Boxer--and I thank her for her leadership in this effort--to keep from turning back the clock on our air quality. We desperately need to reform our country's energy policies. Our reliance on fossil fuels means polluting our air, it results in an enormous transfer of wealth to other countries--$1 billion a day-- and it compromises our national security. We are currently sending $150 billion a year to countries that the State Department deems dangerous and unsafe. There are tremendous costs domestically associated with this reliance on fossil fuels. We saw it in 1989 with the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound, and we are seeing it now as the largest environmental disaster in our country's history plays out before our very eyes in the gulf--the loss of life and the tragedy to the environment. The way of life that so many people in the gulf have enjoyed for generations is unfortunately, we think, going to be gone. We pay a very heavy price for our dependence on fossil fuels. Now is the time to work together to get America running on clean energy. Reforming our Nation's energy policies will help us take control of our future in America, a future that will be built on clean energy and American power. To those who say we should not be reducing carbon pollution, I simply disagree. We have heard the same tired stories from big oil and big polluters again and again.…”