Political Quotes

“I want to make a comment or two about the distribution of funding for homeland security. Of course, there has been a great deal of discussion about it, but we haven't heard much from small States. I am from Wyoming and I suggest to my colleagues that we have needs-- perhaps at a different level but we have needs--like everyone else for homeland security. So I have been a little disappointed with my colleagues' comments yesterday and some today with respect to securing America. I actually hadn't heard anything about rural areas, as they are at risk as well. I know we have fewer people. But what I did hear is that rural America doesn't need homeland security funding, and that is not the case. Most people don't know that Wyoming, which I guess is probably at the moment our smallest populated State, is the largest exporter of energy in the United States. We have oil reserves, we have gasfields, we have coal mines, we have powerplants, we have uranium mines, all of which contribute to the rest of the country and to the security of the rest of the country. If folks don't believe our rail lines and transmission lines and refineries and pipelines are not targets, then we need to reevaluate that. We need to think about it again.”