Political Quotes

“That is a concern. They wanted to give Joe Camel a passport. They have already given him one really and taken him around to addict other people's children on nicotine, just as these nicotine peddlers have addicted our children in too many cases across America. I would reflect on some of the points the gentleman just made. I think this is important to put this in an important historical setting, and to recognize that experts that we turn to now, experts that were appointed, indeed, by Republican Presidents like Mr. Kessler, Dr. Kessler, in fact, now up at Yale, we turned to him for expertise on these subjects. A person that Speaker Gingrich labeled a thug; as you referenced, the kind of rhetoric that unfortunately has too often characterized debates in this House. To now suggest, and I read the same article about his comments, that the approach that the Republicans, I believe all of the Republicans on the Senate Committee on Commerce endorsed, was too liberal, is an indication of how really extreme and controlled by the tobacco lobby the leadership of this House is. I know the gentleman from New Jersey shares my view that what we need with reference to tobacco is a genuinely conservative approach.”