Ed Markey Quotes (44 Quotes)


    You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

    Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

    In January 2003, he allowed President Bush to include the fraudulent claim about yellowcake uranium from Niger in the State of the Union address, ... In February 2003, he sat behind Colin Powell as he systematically presented intelligence on Iraqi WMD that was alarmist and untrue. Later in February 2003, he did not clarify the CIA's intelligence position when the on-the-ground U.N. weapons inspectors reported their negative findings.

    That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.

    But they (amusement parks) have other pressures on them as well -- to minimize publicity and maximize profit -- that need to be acknowledged and accounted for to ensure that safety receives its due.


    The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

    The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

    It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

    Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

    Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

    With one simple move the president has blown a hole in the nuclear rules that the entire world has been playing by.

    In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

    The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

    Our nation's telecommunications markets must be vigorously competitive and open to innovation in order to promote job creation and economic growth. This merger proposal is one that unquestionably merits the utmost scrutiny by government antitrust officials.

    If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

    Seeing is believing, and the evidence strongly suggests that terrorists continue to perpetrate devastating attacks against our troops and civilians around the world,

    Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.

    I remember when I was a boy, my father used to walk around without one of his fingers that he lost in an accident in the workplace.

    Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

    Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

    I am very anxious to hear Chairman Pitt's explanation of this latest tryst in direct contradiction of his own stated policy against such meetings, ... The absence of enforcement staff in these meetings undermines the credibility of the commission and damages the morale of commission staff.

    First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.

    Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

    We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

    We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

    The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

    If India is allowed to have a nuclear program that is half safeguarded and half not, it will be ridiculed as half-baked and would make a mockery of the International Atomic Energy Agency and of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

    We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.

    Throughout United States history we have encountered and defeated brutal enemies, inhumane and monstrous dictators and met with hideous violence.

    Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

    However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

    So, we do have a very significant problem with American consumers not having any American cars to turn to which are fuel efficient.

    Twenty years after the government broke up Ma Bell, this deal represents a mother and child reunion.

    The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

    A lot of times, ... industries attempt to use Congress to wipe out good work being done at the state level.

    Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

    In Massachusetts we tend to think about segregation and racial disparity as a southern phenomenon, alien to our abolitionist New England roots.

    They say yes to the oil and gas industry and no to renewable energy and conservation and efficiency.

    None of us is interested in taking the thrill out of our roller coaster or any other fun ride that we have all experienced as children or young adults, ... patrons have a safe and happy time.

    People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

    The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.

    The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

    Hollywood wants to play Big Brother and make all the decisions, and not give the information to the parents,

    The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.


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