Political Quotes

“there is a great book called ``SuperFreakonomics'' written by some Chicago economists who talk about the threat to the environment of horse manure back when we had horse- drawn buggies in our cities because the internal combustion engine had not been created. They point out that that environmental hazard went away almost overnight because the internal combustion engine was created. Likewise, when I was growing up, a scientist named Paul Ehrlich from Stanford wrote a book called ``The Population Bomb.'' He said that millions of people would starve across our country and across the world unless we basically quit having children. What he miscalculated is the impact of a gentleman by the name of Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution that he began due to research and development of an innovative plant gene research. So we were able to basically defeat the population bomb, and we were able to deal with the environmental hazard of horse manure by innovation. That is what I am for, that is what I said, and that is what I would say again to my friend from New York. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Indiana is recognized.”