Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I know that what we do here on the floor is often riveting drama for those who are watching on television. Let me, in some respects, not try to add to that drama and go back to facts, something we don't necessarily like around here. We've already talked about this so-called uranium issue showing facts. The chart that we just saw from the gentleman from Massachusetts was an interesting chart. The area of the United States that was colored on that chart is the area that there are those in this administration, indeed, on this floor, want to be owned by the Federal Government here. Let me talk to you just a moment--and I'll even grant some time to the gentlelady from New York if she could actually answer this one--and talk about what some of these issues do to those of us who live under what Nelson Rockefeller called the ``deadening hand of bureaucracy'' because, once again, in the East you don't have to deal with these situations; in the West we do. Let me talk about simply the Environmental Protection Agency and some of the brilliant things they do in the name of trying to clean up our water and our air and make life more livable for us. One of the suburbs of my community--and I call it a suburb simply because my community only has, what, 18,000 people in it; so I like calling it a suburb--has no rivers, no creeks, no streams, no anything. It does have irrigation ditches.…”