Maurice Hinchey Quotations

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

They have taken advantage of the Hurricane Katrina situation to jack up those profits,

The level of interest rates keeps going up, the difficulty of borrowing the money has increased also, just in the last five years.

charging much more than they need and pocketing the profits.

There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you can last more than 200 years. Weve got to continue to sustain the system, and the only way you can do it is by sustaining the constitution and by confronting lies face to face, head on, aggressively.

I am deeply grateful for all the friendships that I have all across this district, especially here in Ithaca. Ithacas a wonderful place. Im very proud to be the person who represents the city and some of Tompkins County.

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.

Look what happened with regard to our invasion into Afghanistan, how we apparently intentionally let bin Laden get away. That was done by the previous administration because they knew very well that if they would capture al Qaeda, there would be no justification for an invasion in Iraq. There's no question that the leader of the military operations of the U.S. called back our military, called them back from going after the head of al Qaeda.

Passage of this amendment to end conflicts of interest is a victory for public health and restores integrity and confidence in the FDA's advisory committees,

Recent FDA actions have created serious doubts about whether committee members are serving only the public interest and, as a result, industry biases now taint many advisory panel decisions, ... Today we took a giant step forward to squash those doubts.