Political Quotes

“we have learned a lot about terrorism since September of last year. We have learned that terrorists prey on vulnerability. Our vulnerability becomes their target. This bill reduces our vulnerability when it comes to this threat of bioterrorism and thus reduces the likelihood of an attack by reducing our vulnerability and reduces the potential damage an attack may cause by improving and strengthening our response. We have learned the goal of a bioterror attack is not only to hurt people directly but to paralyze them, to cause panic. This bill will calm the nerves and keep order in the event there is another bioterror attack. This bill addresses prevention and preparedness, as well as response. Indeed, this bill touches all areas of preparedness: Protecting our food and water, boosting medical stockpiles, and supporting our local communities and public health infrastructure. This bill emphasizes the local response and local preparedness. It recognizes that it is local people who will respond in the event of a bioterror attack. It is about whom you call when you suspect something, whom you call if you are worried about bioterrorism: The family doctors, the emergency workers, the health care professionals. Today, with this legislation we make the first people on the scene our first priority.”