Political Quotes

“people who are listening to and watching this discussion must go back and understand George Orwell set forth a principle in his book ``1984'' that has become known as Orwellian. What that means is what the person is saying, they mean the direct opposite. This is so hard to respond to in a calm, deliberative manner. We want to legislate. The proposal the distinguished Republican leader suggested is an amendment we might find a way to approach, but shouldn't we get on the bill? I don't understand this. I don't understand this. They talk about the way to solve the problems of energy in America is to keep drilling, and now they are talking about drilling in wilderness areas--pristine areas in which they want to start drilling. We have 3 percent of the oil in the world, counting everything--ANWR, all those other things. We cannot produce our way out of the problems we have. Sixty-five percent of the oil we use we import. So it seems logical to everyone the thing we should do is stop importing oil. We can produce a little more, and we should do that, but the way to get out of this problem is to move to alternative energy. In this debate, with these gas prices as high as they have ever been in the history of America, more than $4.05 a gallon, where is George Bush, the President? Why isn't he talking about this? Why isn't he talking about this? He hasn't talked about it for the last 2 months. Where is John McCain?”