Political Quotes

“I extend my appreciation publicly, as I have done privately on a number of occasions, for the leadership of Richard Bryan on this issue. And I say Richard Bryan, because his leadership on this issue started long before he became a Member of the U.S. Senate. During his tenure as Governor of the State of Nevada, he was a leader in recognizing the fallacy of attempting to geologically bury nuclear waste next to the No. 1 destination resort of the world--Las Vegas. Mr. President, I, like my friend, the junior Senator from Nevada, as a little boy used to watch the flashes in the morning sky. I lived about 60 miles from Las Vegas, 60 miles farther away from the explosion than did Senator Bryan. We would get up--it would be dark--a bunch of little kids, and we would see that flash in the sky. Sometimes in Searchlight, where I was born and raised, we would hear the explosion, because by the time it got to Searchlight, a lot of times the sound would bounce clear over Searchlight. But, as I told many people, we were the lucky ones, because the winds did not blow toward Searchlight. The winds blew toward St. George, they blew toward Enterprise in Utah, and those young men and women who watched the night sky explode got diseases and some died. I have talked to parents, I have talked to children, sons and daughters. And, of course, there are the stories that have been written about sheep, people herding sheep.…”