Political Quotes

“It certainly does. As the Senator has pointed out, within a mile of these routes are 50 million Americans. Now, the Senator will recall--it happened within the past year, but I just mention it briefly--within a mile of the freeway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas a train wreck occurred. They closed that route. That wreck did not involve the most dangerous substance known to man. It had some cars loaded with chemicals, but it did not have nuclear waste. It is difficult to imagine how long that road would have been blocked off had there been nuclear waste involved. As I pointed out to the Senator and the rest of the people within the sound of my voice, we do not have people trained to deal with nuclear waste accidents. We do not have people trained to deal with nuclear waste at all as indicated by the report that I just received today on the 'Evaluation of the Emergency Response Capabilities Along Potential Waste Routes.'”