Political Quotes

“The city of Las Vegas is part of a metropolitan area, and it is just like most areas in the United States. You have a city surrounded by suburbs, and that is, in effect, what we have in Las Vegas. Of course, the numbers that were brought forth by my colleague from Nevada are staggering even if you do not take into consideration the fact that these are only the incorporated areas. If you elaborate on that and indicate that the population of nearly every place we talked about is much greater than almost every place we talked about on the chart, it involves more than 50 million people. The example we talked about, with Chicago, is certainly in point. Chicago would not only be responsible for, in effect, gathering up its nuclear waste and transporting it, but they would be responsible also, being the major railhead that it is, for other people's nuclear waste. The people of Illinois should tell the nuclear power industry, 'Don't do us any favors. Leave it here.'”