It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nations leading causes of preventable death, but its less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires. – Ed Markey
The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years. – Ed Markey
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, theyre 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education. – Ed Markey
People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets. – Ed Markey
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. – Henry James Sumner Maine