Political Quotes

“The figures the Senator cited are from a USGS survey taken in 1995. Those figures have changed and moved up. No. 2, if he doesn't want people to drill there, where can they drill? How many people in this body or in this town drove an automobile or rode something here that required energy? How many? Do we close off the whole Nation because somebody is making a profit? Do we take the same mindset into agriculture, into production agriculture, as they have in Klamath Falls where 1,500 farmers cannot irrigate because of a suckerfish? It is a mindset. I move to table this amendment for the simple reason that it will impact the country. You say only 5 percent or 2 percent or 1 percent. I say to the Senator: $5 is not very much to some of us. But it is when you don't have it. We have that possibility with this kind of a mindset. I yield the floor.”