Tom Allen Quotes

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.

By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.

Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses.

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.

Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people.