Political Quotes

“I thank the Presiding Officer. I rise today to lend my support to the Murkowski Resolution of Disapproval for one simple but enormously important reason: because I believe we must send this strong and urgent message that the fate of our economy, our manufacturing industries, and our workers, including our coal workers, should never be placed solely in the hands of the federal Environmental Protection Agency. I have long maintained this in Congress. I have been around here for a while. I was a Governor for 8 years. I think the elected people, and not the unelected EPA, have a constitutional responsibility here and on an issue which is so totally important. We are accountable to those people. Some here seem to talk about other aspects of this. I tend to focus, as a VISTA volunteer who went to West Virginia and lived among coal miners, on people and all the problems, including the problem of climate change, that attend to their future. I am not here to deny or bicker fruitlessly about the science, as some would suggest. In fact, I would suggest that I think the science is correct. However, it doesn't one iota deter from my support of the Murkowski resolution. I care deeply about this Earth and resent anybody who suggests otherwise about either me or the people of my State. I care about the fundamental human commitment--the higher calling we all have--to be a steward.…”