Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we've heard the song: ``This land is your land; ``This land is my land; ``From California to the New York Island; ``This land was made for you and me.'' But we need to understand that, in America, the greatest, largest landholder is Uncle Sam--Uncle Sam, the great landowner. He owns 27 percent of all the land in America. This poster here shows the holdings of Uncle Sam. All of the red in the United States, including the red in Alaska, is owned by Uncle Sam. Over 50 percent of the land in the West is owned by Uncle Sam. Now, if we were to transfer all of these acres to the east coast, that's about the size of all of the land east of the Mississippi that is owned by Uncle Sam. Looking at it another way, let's go across the seas, to Europe. If you were to take all of the land that Uncle Sam owns and superimpose it on Europe, it would include the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Germany, and Poland. That would be how much land Uncle Sam would own if he owned that portion of Europe. So the great landholder is none other than the Federal Government. The Federal Government owns about 27 percent of all the land in America--623 million acres. We are now talking about how to increase the revenue for this country. Maybe we should do something that was thought of years ago.…”