Political Quotes

“It is interesting that my friend should mention his Chamber of Commerce. In Rhode Island, we too are seeing very active participation by our local Chambers of Commerce in green, solar, alternative energy, energy efficiency, and other such endeavors. They see it is a pocketbook issue. They see it makes sense. It is a stark comparison with the so-called U.S. Chamber of Commerce--the national organization--which tends to represent the multinational corporations which have very little, if any, allegiance to this country and the big polluters. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been an absolute menace in terms of any responsible dealings with climate change. But as soon as you get away from the so-called U.S. Chamber of Commerce--the multinational Chamber of Commerce is what it should probably be called--and get down to these Chambers of Commerce that are grounded with our States, grounded with local businesses, grounded in commonsense, you immediately see that they step right up and want to be a part of this solution.”