Political Quotes

“The other day, Topper Shutt in his broadcast, said, ``Today is going to be a glorious day.'' He obviously was talking about the sunshine outside, which means we should have done this bill yesterday so I could be on my deck right now, but that is beside the point. This is, though, a glorious day because we are finally doing a solution that helps people. Instead of just kicking the can down the road again for another year, we are going to find a solution to this problem, this problem of a drought that is affecting the entire West to such a degree that one would think that Nostradamus' quatrains have come true. But what we are doing here is finding a solution. Many of the opponents of this bill would simply say let's pass more rain dances and hope something happens. What we are doing here is taking the advice of our pioneer forefathers and saying what we have, save. Do it as storage. And not just for California, but for the entire West. That is the purpose behind this particular bill. There are some concerns about environmental issues that may or may not have been wise to do in the past. That is not the concern of this bill. We are not stopping any of that. What we are doing is finding a creative way to provide for that, but also provide a way of getting water to people where they need it. In the middle of the last century, we did water projects and hydropower projects that helped us win the war.…”