Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. Madam Speaker, today's legislation is essentially about the very simple sounding act of abolishing the Clean Air Act. Why? How is it that we are going to do this? The authors in support of this legislation have come to the legislative conclusion that global warming is a hoax. Give him credit. Coming to that conclusion was a big lift. It flies in the face of the unanimous conclusion of American scientists, 97 percent, that global warming is real and it's manmade. And, you know, when you are going to get to that conclusion, you have to follow a long-established tradition we humans have, and that's the ability to disregard the obvious and the proven when that conflicts with what our ideology says we want. You know, Aristotle was the EPA of his day. He was attacked when he said that the Earth was round. The world at that time thought the world was flat, and people argued with Aristotle and about Aristotle for 1,500 years. Galileo became the EPA of his day when he said that the Earth revolved around the sun.…”