Edward Markey Quotations

We are going to have to exponentially increase rail security, ... to give the cities and towns across our country the security they need.

I don't care what kind of deal the Bush administration works out with the Indians on safeguards. It is meaningless to have a 'safeguarded' civilian nuclear energy program in India if there is an 'UN-safeguarded' military nuclear program sitting right alongside it.

I think we should be able to resolve this more peaceably. It's in the federal courts now and hopefully will be resolved in the near future,

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

We're breaking huge monopolies. It just can't happen overnight. The time is takes is dependent on how long it takes to get rules on the books and whether or not the (Baby Bells) take the rules to court which is their right. Without question, consumers are going to get the competition Congress and the president promised,

We have the issues of poor people and privacy left over because all the big boys have already gotten what they want,

We know there is a toxic cocktail that results when you put Ford explorer and Firestone tires together,

We have a virtual approval of a nonexistent document,

When 70 million television sets go black on December 31, 2008, three years from now, I can tell you people are going to have very strong opinions about it.

With one simple move the president has blown a hole in the nuclear rules that the entire world has been playing by and broken his own word to assure that we will not ship nuclear technology to India without the proper safeguards.

With one decision, Bush has made a mockery of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the likelihood that any other country in the world will take it seriously.

The public deserves to know whether this is a case of FDA incompetence and a lack of diligence, or whether the FDA made a decision to protect the company's confidentiality over the public health. Either way, we have a serious problem on our hands.

The National Amusement Ride Safety Act does not single out this industry, ... Our purpose is to ensure that this industry is treated no differently than any other when it comes to basic consumer safety oversight of activity that places small children on large machines.

Now more than ever, the money is gushing into the pockets of the oil and gas industry, ... The five largest oil companies have recorded profits of over $46 billion during the first six months of this year.

The Bush administration has given a pass to the cargo industry,

bad for consumers, bad for competition, and bad for innovation.

This is the equivalent of handing back the box cutters to the 9/11 hijackers,

This family has had a powerful impact not only upon our country, but upon just about every other country in the world, ... They are the most important political family in the world for the last 50 years, and I think we all really feel this sense of loss.

This entire bill is written for Exxon Mobil.

Americans are really playing cargo roulette every time they get on a passenger plane.

This legislation creates an Internet playground. I think it will be a useful tool to millions of parents and families ... and the private sector as well.

The consumers of that oil are now asking whether you intend to use your emergency power to protect families facing soaring heating oil prices in the Northeast,

In keeping with his design to gut our country of national treasures, the chairman has put the home of America's foremost park-maker ... on the list of national parks to be cut, ... He is trying to sell the park-maker's park.

If you choose nevertheless not to release home heating oil from the reserve, I respectfully request an explanation of the reasons why the administration has chosen not to provide relief to consumers in the Northeast,

How can any of you justify no testing of these tires after two years? I want to hear you justify to American families with two kids strapped into the back seat: How can you justify that you have not done the tests?

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 did nothing to reduce our dependency on foreign oil or relieve the burden of consumers at the pump.