Quotes by Jay Inslee

“[Washington State Democrat Jay Inslee brought an enlarged photo of the bald eagle to the House floor.] What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in, ... This isnt modernization of the act. Its euthanasia of the act.”

“They want to give away the taxpayers gold. If somebody went to Fort Knox and took gold out, theyd be in jail for the rest of their lives. But in national forests, people can take gold (under the bill) and be considered friends of the Republican Party.”

“This is a gross and disturbing violation of the commitment to keep water healthy in the straits and Puget Sound.”

“It does not appear that there is a single inspector general who is in full charge of seeing that these monies are wisely spent.”

“Theres been a dramatic change in climate since before Christmas. Its shifted people. Some majority-party members are thinking twice about this bill.”

“I found your study to be critical ... and there is evidence that logging may have some consequences we may not fully understand.”

“We cannot allow telecommunications companies to hijack the Internet. After all, the beauty of the Internet is its open architecture.”

“[Pombos bill is] not modernizing the Act, it is euthanizing it, ... It is putting it down with the guise of kindness, with the guise of making it stronger.”

“The abuses and failures weve seen in Iraq -- we dont want to duplicate those here at home,”

“It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.”

Resistance is NOT futile.

The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.