Political Quotes

“I say to my friend, I have had the good fortune to be chairman of your committee twice; one of them was a very short period of time because we were in the majority for a little while. It is a wonderful committee, and I do not know of a better committee in the whole Congress--so many important things to do and deal with. Not only is the distinguished Senator from California, who represents almost 40 million people--she is a person who is suited to be the chairman of this committee like no other committee chairman we have ever had. I know where your heart is. I have known you for 26 years. We came here in 1982 together. And this piece of legislation--you worked on it on a bipartisan basis--is a good piece of legislation. Is it perfect? The chairman acknowledged it is not a perfect bill. But I would only say to the chairman of the Committee, I do not think the American people are confused at all. I think they know what has happened. We have seen today a situation where we have read into the Record the Republican's play book; that is, they are playing political games, they are stalling, they do not want to deal with the most important issues we face in the world today--global warming. They want to wait, hoping above hope that something will happen in November and that they will be in the majority.”