Political Quotes

“Postal Clerk, can you make 10 copies of this letter? Nope; it is against the law for me to do that. Rural Postal Clerk, I would like a fishing license or a hunting license. Can you help me with that? I cannot do that. It is against the law. I want to mail this box of wine and beer. I cannot do that. It is against the law. So what we want to do is take away many of the restrictions that have been imposed on the Postal Service by Congress and give them the flexibility to be more entrepreneurial to bring in more revenue. In addition to that, this managers' amendment creates a blue ribbon entrepreneurial commission. What that is about is that today we have, as the majority leader indicated, some 32,000 post offices in America. Today letter carriers are delivering mail to about 150 million doors in America. That is a huge infrastructure. If we have some pretty smart entrepreneurial types telling us what we can do in addition to what we are doing now--what the letter carriers can do, what the post offices could do, what the Postal Service can do in terms of new products and services--can we bring in more revenue? I think we can. That is what the commission is going to be looking at. Let me say a few words about the financial condition of the Postal Service. No one debates first-class mail is down. A lot of people now use e-mail and the Internet rather than first-class mail. There is no debate about that.…”