Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentleman from New Mexico's introduction, which is far more fluent than my presentation will be. I share what the gentleman from New Mexico, as well as the gentlelady from Wyoming, have said on this particular issue, that we in the West seem to have a unique situation in which there is an effort to try and stifle--hopefully by simple incompetence and not out of planning--but stifle the economic growth that we need so desperately in the West for our kids and for our future. There are two things that were said today that I read in the paper that come from this administration, which tells us that we're obviously in a campaign season and that the words are simply being used in a unique and different way. The President once said that the party to which I belong is currently engaged in a war on the poor, which I find unique because, to be honest, when you have overriding and ever-increasing energy costs, that--as the gentlelady from Wyoming said--is the real war on the poor. Somebody who is in the bottom portion of our economic sphere, our economic stratus, will pay three times as high a percentage of their income for increased energy prices as those who are in the top will. If you have a nice urban job, you may have an inconvenience as energy prices go up. But if you're one of those struggling working families trying to make ends meet, this becomes a unique situation.…”