Political Quotes

“I rise strongly against this amendment. It was said earlier that this is not the right time to make this decision. Well, it is always easy to say it is not the right time to make a tough decision. And the reason we are in this terrible situation is we have made bad decisions in the past. There is no reason at all that we should have a North America gas market that is four or five times the rest of the world. We should be paying a competitive price for gas, but we are paying this outrageous price because of the decisions that we have made in the past. And we have made them based on outdated facts. Let's look at the true facts. Let's look at the facts that technology has changed. We can do this safely; we are doing it safely in other places. We want to preserve Florida's coastline. Nobody wants to do anything that would have any harm. But we also need the natural gas. We are losing jobs every day because of the price of natural gas in North America. Now, when we lose jobs to China because people over there are willing to work real cheap, we are real upset about that, as we should be. But we are losing jobs because of the price of natural gas that would pay top American wages, jobs we can't afford to lose. We cannot afford to be uncompetitive in the world. This ban must be lifted. We must figure out how to do it properly so that we are not locking up the resources that we need to be competitive in the world.…”