Political Quotes

“I must say that at the summit, I was encouraged by some other people that we encountered, where some of the hypocrisy of some of the richer countries, they were taken to task by well-organized and articulate poor people, by representatives of nongovernmental organizations, by a growing consensus of elected leaders like the gentleman helped guide dealing with renewable energy. We saw business step forward to embrace the challenge of the Kyoto Protocol. The gentleman from Maine and I went to Abutu village where there were spectacular exhibits, one that was managed in part by the Smithsonian, that had a number of United States agencies that told a lot about the environment. But if you looked at that exhibit, and we walked through the exhibit tent, including the Department of Energy and NOAA and EPA, the Department of the Interior, there was no information on global warming, on climate change. None. But if you went next door to the exhibit of BP, British Petroleum, there they had information.…”