Political Quotes

“I am here for the 305th time with my increasingly weathered and battered ``Time to Wake Up'' chart to warn this Chamber about a corrupt danger to our country--a danger powered by fossil fuel industry money, orchestrated by dark money front groups, and now executed at the highest levels of a corrupted executive branch. In previous speeches, I described the four phases of climate denial. Phase 1 was bury the evidence. The fossil fuel industry scientists told them what the science was. They ignored it, and they buried it. Phase 2 was lie about the evidence, pretend it wasn't true, as the rest of the scientific establishment came on board with what their scientists had already told them. Phase 3 was flood our politics with dark money to protect fossil fuel's pollute-for-free business model. After Citizens United, out poured the money. Now we have entered into phase 4, the most dangerous phase yet-- weaponizing the government itself to attack clean energy, protect polluters, and steamroll lawful government process. Today's speech is about a lie. We are now so deep in phase 4 that heads of executive Agencies feel entitled to lie to Congress if it helps carry out President Trump's fossil fuel-captured agenda.”