Political Quotes

“I think that basically the Senator touched on something very important and we want to go back to that--transportation of the oil today. The oil is coming down into the refineries anyway. We have had some explosions by our rail carriers. It is coming by truck, and it is coming in so many different forms. We have been told this is the safest way to transport. When people talk about safe transport, we know this was not the first pipeline we have in America. I think if you ever look at a map--the Senator has had the map on the floor--there is a crisscross. We have pipelines all across America, and I think that is the perfect map to see. So the bottom line is it is something we have done. If we take it in the harshest environment in Alaska, the Alaskan pipeline--that means so much to us in America--it has been done in the harshest of environments and has been done safely. So I am concerned about that. I am also concerned with--the Senator talked about it directly going to Texas, but you all benefit; everyone benefits.”