Political Quotes

“Well, reclaiming my time, it appears that apparently former President George W. Bush must have had an awful lot of activity to have that kind of effect on global warming even back then. But then I find it interesting, because I know my friend recalls seeing the articles as I did. In fact, I recall in college being told that we were probably at the very beginning--some said we absolutely were at the very early stages of a new ice age that would end the world, end all people on the world with ice. Well, I just didn't believe it because as a Christian, you know, the Bible doesn't teach that the world ends with an ice age, and so I just knew that couldn't be right. But the people all around me were saying, Oh, yeah, we're at the beginning of a new ice age. It's the global cooling. It's going to ultimately have the whole planet frozen solid, and then who knows what life forms will emerge, if any, after the big ice age. Now I remember that, and I remember the discussions and discussing it with classmates and things, and I just could not buy back in the seventies that we were at the beginning of a new ice age. So I come into this thing a bit skeptical. And as I have said many times, there is an adage here in Washington that no matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up. And this is exactly the kind of thing that makes you see that. It just creates too much cynicism.”