Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I am glad to follow my colleague from Washington, because I have also been to ANWR, and maybe we went to 2 different places, because when I was there in the first week of August, it was snowing; it was a blizzard. Maybe he was further south, where we are not talking about drilling, but I have been there, and I know we can extract oil from it and we can have an infrastructure that will not impact the environmental quality of ANWR. Our technology has changed since the North Slope was first developed decades ago. We have a much more efficient and robust and less intrusive effort in anywhere, whether it is off the coast of Texas, or in ANWR. Mr. Chairman, we have to drill somewhere, and, if not in ANWR, where do my colleagues suggest to drill? I rise in strong opposition to the Johnson-Markey amendment, and I hope this body is debating this issue as a national policy, because we have to drill somewhere. We cannot keep depending on foreign sources to be able to depend on for our country. Where are we supposed to drill, only in foreign countries? Well, then, we are either going to let people who are our enemies control it, or we are going to take advantage of Third World countries by drilling in those countries and just using it from them. We must support continued effort on foreign dependence on oil, and that is what we need to stop. I think this rationale is crazy.”