Political Quotes

“my heart goes out to the people in Eastern Kentucky, with the devastating floods. The issue before our entire country is that we have storms like this appearing from nowhere, storms like we have never had before. I don't know the history of Kentucky, but I have watched and been briefed on what is going on around the rest of the Nation, and these storms are coming all the time--untoward. It is too bad that my Republican colleagues have denied climate change. We have to do something, and we have to do something very soon. There was a meeting a few days ago at the White House where the President announced that with regard to climate change we have to do something now. He said that by the year 2100, scientists say, the seas will have risen 16 feet. What does that mean? It means that much of Florida will be underwater. We have things happening that have never been recorded before. In the Sierras, some bears are not hibernating. We have an average rainfall and snowpack in upper Colorado, and none of it gets into the river. So I would hope my friends would join with us in doing something positive with regard to climate change. ____________________”