Political Quotes

“Mr. President, let me thank Senator Klobuchar for her wonderful remarks, and of course Minnesota is a Northern State which sees this up close all the time. The Senator spoke of bipartisanship. Do you know who voted with Senator Chafee for the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990? The Republican Senate majority leader did, as did a majority of the Republican caucus in the Senate. In fact, those powerful 1990 Clean Air Act amendments passed 89 to 10. Where do I go to get a majority leader like that back? Where do I go to get a Senate Republican Party like that back? As late as 2009, Donald Trump published an advertisement in the New York Times that said that the climate science was ``scientifically irrefutable''--scientifically irrefutable--and that if we didn't do anything about it, there would be ``catastrophic and irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet.'' That is Donald Trump in 2009. Where do I go to get that Donald Trump back? What happened? In 2007, when I first joined this body, there were Republicans working on climate legislation all over the place. Senator Klobuchar and I came together that year. We had, by my count, five pieces of bipartisan climate legislation that were working through this body in various stages in 2007, 2008, and 2009, when Donald Trump put this advertisement in the New York Times saying that the science was scientifically irrefutable and the consequences would be catastrophic and irreversible. Then came January of 2010.…”