Political Quotes

“I recognize he has a point there. This situation, where I devised a provision to give the President the authority, in my view--in earlier days, I was in aviation. Unfortunately, I never fully succeeded to become an aviator. We used to have a stick in the old days, before all this other stuff, when we had tandem seats--believe it or not, I flew in those old planes--you pull the stick forward, pull it back, roll it. The President has the stick, and he can change this if this bill is wrong. But we have to get this train out of the station and start it rolling down the rails. Fifty States are trying to devise their own framework of laws now. That has to be a nightmare to industry and particularly the power companies that have to serve a multiple of States. We simply have to show the world this country can lead, and no one is a stronger leader than the Senator from New Hampshire in this body. He understands that.”