Political Quotes

“I know there are people in the audience all around here who are being paid lots of money. They are coming here to see what is going to happen. They are being paid lots of money. They drive here in limousines and have Gucci shoes and nice suits. It is interesting to know that in the places where they work, Washington and New York, they have editorials supporting this bad situation, trying to ship Yucca Mountain waste on our highways, railways, and our waterways. In this morning's paper, it says the Senate should pass the Yucca Mountain bill now. This is part of the unending stream of money. That is what this is all about--money, lots of money; money to run newspaper ads; unlimited vacations to Las Vegas to look at Yucca Mountain for 2 hours and spend three days being wined and dined in Las Vegas; unlimited dollars to send representatives to Capitol Hill. I know how this works. The State of Nevada had a few dollars and we wanted to hire a lobbyist, but we could not find one. They were all hired by the Nuclear Energy Institute. We could not hire them. They had conflicts of interest. So all you people here, just bill everybody, feel good about it; you are perpetrating a travesty on the people of this country. We know that the information in this ad from the Washington Post are myths. The law requires Senate action. That is not true, as has been indicated by the majority leader and everybody else. It is not true.”