Political Quotes

“Thank you very much, Mr. President. I rise today to oppose the Congressional Review Act to derail the Clean Power Plan. It was Theodore Roosevelt who said, ``Of all the questions that can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.'' Theodore Roosevelt was at the core of the conservation movement in the Republican Party. It is a Republican Party far removed from the party it is today. Roosevelt's determination to ``leave this land a little better'' has been replaced by complete abdication of responsible leadership for the stewardship of our planet. The Clean Power Plan that this resolution concerns is the single most significant step this country has taken now or in the past to combat climate change. Many citizens do not know that over the past few decades we have seen the carbon pollution rise in the atmosphere, and it is now in the upper level of 400 parts per million. As that carbon dioxide concentrates and comes to a higher level, it traps the heat, and that heat is producing profound consequences. We haven't had this level of carbon pollution for 3 million years--long before humans walked this planet and when sea levels were as much as 80 feet higher than they are today.…”