Political Quotes

“America is watching what this body does. And America tells us to win the war on terror. Do not accept retreat and defeat. America is watching this body, and they are telling us to do something about energy prices, that of home heating oil and gasoline prices, and to increase the energy supply in this country. America tells us to strengthen our porous borders, to enforce the laws of the land. We are a nation of laws. Yes, we are a nation of immigrants, a wonderful nation of immigrants, but a nation of laws. America tells us to support the victims of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and what we are about to vote on in this bill is all of the above. The Democrats should not filibuster our Defense appropriations bill. And that is what we will be voting on in a few minutes. We are a nation at war. Right now, our troops are engaged on the battlefield with a determined enemy. The consequences of failure to invoke cloture on this Defense appropriations bill, when we have troops in the field, are grave. We have a responsibility not only to fully support our troops when they are at war but a responsibility also to secure our economic viability. We need to reduce that dependence--that dangerous dependence--on foreign sources of oil. The ANWR provision promises to unlock up to 14 billion barrels of oil, nearly 1 million barrels a day at full production. ANWR has been determined by experts to be the single largest and most promising onshore oil reserve in North America.…”