Political Quotes

“I want to thank the sponsor of this resolution. He has been a leader on this. And the fact is, they say that politicians think of the next election, statesmen think of the next generation. This resolution is about the next generation. And the next generation and the generation after that need to have an Earth that they can inhabit that's similar to the Earth that was inhabited by our predecessors, because we are polluting it. And we need to be careful about what we are doing to the ocean. It's the last frontier, and we are polluting it greatly. I want to bring up the work of a lady, no relation to me, whose name is Dianna Cohen. Dianna is in Barcelona, Spain, and she is doing an exhibition on plastics. She is the founder of a group called the Plastic Pollution Coalition. The fact is, plastics break up and spread poisons and toxins that threaten our sea life, our marine life, get into our systems through our ingesting and eating those animals, and are a threat to our own present existence. When plastics are produced and they are put into the atmosphere and into the environment and end up in the ocean, they threaten us. So what she has done in Barcelona, Spain, on the 8th of June, which is World Ocean Day, is have an Ocean of Plastic exhibit and taken plastics from the ocean and created art. It is teaching students there about the dangers of plastics, the threat to our ocean life and to our marine future. I commend Dianna Cohen for her work. I commend Mr.…”