It almost seems then that they will be allocated based upon a state's ability to pay, ... How are you going to ask Louisiana right now to come up with the money for that. Take Mississippi . They've been hit hard. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Trust us' is not something the administration can say after Katrina, ... I don't think Congress is in a mood to trust. We want plans. We want specific goals and procedures we're going to take to prepare for this. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I have some real grievances on this issue, ... We have pushed for years to get a natural gas pipeline built from Alaska to the lower 48 states. If this administration had four to five years ago begun saying 'we are going to get that pipeline built', we would be a third of the way done. There are huge natural gas reserves up there. However the natural gas industry in Texas and the Gulf Coast don't want that thing built. We have plenty of natural gas up north - we should have pushed to get it down here. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There is little administration support for renewable energy, ... Little support for sources such as soy-based bio-diesel fuel ... or the construction of new ethanol plants. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The Bush administration simply is not trustworthy on this issue, and I am beyond skeptical about these so-called revisions. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Dana Reeve has already faced more than her fair share of adversity, but I know that she will face this latest challenge, as she has the others, with strength, dignity, courage and grace. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Would anyone advocate that we take the fences off the playground for elementary schools and just let kids run around in the streets ... By the same token, why would we allow schools to sort of poison our kids with junk food - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
This independent analysis from the GAO confirms that, without some protections, everyone loses. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
This has created ridiculous situations where companies have sought 5 million and as a condition for approval they have been required to have that much money in the bank, ... If they have that much money in the bank, why would they need the loan - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has determined that our bill will cost about an average of 1.19 a month, ... So, for less than the cost of a Big Mac, you're guaranteed that the medical decisions that affect your life and the lives of your family are made by you and your doctor, not by HMO accountants. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
This sends all the wrong signals to the troops, ... Rush Limbaugh has a point of view. I mean, a dedicated, right wing point of view. That's fine. That's fine. But you should balance it on the other side also. Especially when it's being funded by other people's money. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
For the benefit of the United States, for our country, I believe Mr. Rumsfeld has to resign. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I like and respect each one of them, but for me one candidate rose to the top as our best shot to beat George W. Bush and to give Americans the opportunity to take our country back, ... That person is Governor Howard Dean. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Today, only two groups in the United States have total immunity from lawsuits foreign diplomats and HMOs, ... We believe it's time to end diplomatic immunity for HMOs. Holding them accountable is the only way to guarantee that you get the health care your family deserves. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Parents still lack basic information on the calorie and fat content on the meals that they and their children eat at restaurants. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
She was a citizen in the best sense of the word. She caused things to happen in our society that made us a better, more caring, more just society. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
When we debate the impeachment of the president of the United States, this is something that affects every citizen of this country, and I believe they have a right again to witness that debate and to witness how and why we reach those decisions. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
For the good of our country, the safety of our troops, and our image around the globe, Secretary Rumsfeld should resign, ... If he does not resign forthwith, the president should fire him. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
All you ever needed to know about this election, you learned from driving. If you want to go backward you put it in 'R'. If you want to go forward you put it in 'D'. Let's move this country forward, let's elect Al Gore and Joe Lieberman. - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
These votes are going to be counted in Florida. If they're not counted now, they are going to be counted next year under Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, ... If the truth comes out next year that in fact Al Gore did win Florida ... what is that going to do for the esteem and the respect of the Supreme Court of the United States - Tom Harkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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