Political Quotes

“I have gone to the floor and contested the right of the several States north of my State, largely, to ship through Virginia thousands of tons of garbage by truck, by rail, leaking, exuding methane gas in my State. You have the good fortune of a clause in the Constitution on interstate commerce, by which you can throw up your hands and say it is the exercise of that constitutional power. You say my State cannot object to your shipping garbage through it every day. The Senator knows New Jersey ships through 1,000 tons of it. Yet you are saying to me, we cannot go through a process--working with the Federal Government of the United States and the Department of Interior--to drill offshore unless your Governor and all others, any one of the Governors within 100 States--if he has not given the approval, this thing stops?”