Political Quotes

“it is impossible to open a newspaper or watch cable news these days without hearing my Republican colleagues talk about the evils of ``job-killing regulations.'' Each day, they arrive on the Senate floor to rail against the safeguards that keep our water clean, our air fresh, and our mines safe. According to the GOP, these safeguards are actually the source of all this Nation's economic woes--these terrible, horrible, time-consuming government regulations that hinder the economic progress of America. Republicans will have you believe that these commonsense rules that check the greed of Wall Street banks, keep huge corporations honest, and stop Big Oil's unnecessary risk-taking are also causing small businesses great harm. Indeed, that would be a terrible thing if that were true. And it isn't. While it is proper to guard against and remove onerous regulations-- and we need to do that--my Republican friends have yet to produce a single shred of evidence that the regulations they hate so much do the broad economic harms they claim. That is because there isn't any. Conversely, there is plenty of evidence to prove those regulations save lives, prevent asthma attacks, and ensure that mom-and-pops face a fair fight against these multinational corporations and moneyed interest groups.…”