Political Quotes

“In answer to my friend's question, I was not aware of these numbers, but having had the Senator read them to me, I must say that, if anything, these numbers are small because we can look at Las Vegas as an example. If you look at Las Vegas, you will know that the greater Las Vegas area is about 2.1 million people and most of those people would be affected because it is down in that basin. If something happened, it would spread like wildfire, and I would bet the same applies to other cities. These are very conservative, very unrealistic numbers, and it would probably involve more than 50 million people. I should also say in response to my friend's question, let us look, for example, at Chicago, 2,673,000 people. If I were a resident of the State of Illinois and particularly a resident of the city of Chicago, I would not want--they produce a lot of nuclear power in Illinois--I personally would not want this nuclear waste taken from where it is in Illinois.”