Spencer J. Cox: “We’ve never been more in sync with our federal partners on the firefighting side.”

There is a market failure in both parties, but the party that figures this out is going to do very, very well in some future election, and I certainly hope it's my party.

I don’t think we should say, ‘hey, just trust us.’

I feel confident in the election system in this country, and I hope that politicians will be responsible,” he told Stateline, “that you’ll win the right way, and there’s a right way to lose, too, and I hope we’ll see more of that.

I like to say there's nothing more un-American than hating our fellow Americans, and I certainly want to not fall into that trap.