Political Quotes

“it is alarming, but hardly surprising, to find the House Republican leadership continuing to do the bidding of the tobacco lobby. Within the last few days, the Speaker has declared that Joe Camel had nothing to do with youth smoking, and today the House Republican whip has opposed efforts in an article in the Wall Street Journal, of course, to reduce youth smoking by raising the price of tobacco. This is the same House Republican leadership that last year thought the way to a tobacco settlement was to approve a $50 billion tax break for the tobacco lobby. The only thing I can find to agree on this subject with Speaker Gingrich on is we need a conservative approach, a very conservative approach that begins with conserving the health of America's young people; not protecting the nicotine peddlers who have exploited them at the same time they have funded the Republican Party.”