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I think he has a responsibility, not just to the president, obviously he has to the members of his caucus, but everyone has a higher responsibility to the country, to the constitution.

President Trump deserves credit for getting this resolution through the Security Council last week. But don't undercut it with improvisations and off the cuff statements which are only going to undercut it.

Now, Secretary Mattis made a statement today which I think was the correct one. It should have been made by President Trump and that is to say you are playing with fire, that you're really escalating the danger in the Korean peninsula…

Well, I think it's an example of ad-lib at your peril. That when you improvise without really vetting this through your national security team and have an interagency process so everyone knows exactly what will be said, then you run the…

This has been a very informative hearing, and I thank you for your work and look forward to continuing to work on this problem with you.

The cheapest forest fire of all is the one that doesn't occur.

I just think if you could isolate... it would be important, again, to either verify what my foresters in Maine from the private sector have been telling me for years or not.

I would like to see some data that will either verify that or refute it.

I am not advocating higher prices for water, but it seems to me that is an inevitability as we go to different technologies.

Well, as demand increases and supplies either stay constant or dwindle, that is going to be a logical outcome.

If gasoline were $.20 a gallon we would all be driving Humvees or something.

The amount of fresh water remains constant.

Resilience equals diversification, and I think desal is an important part, piece of that.

It is hard to beat free. It comes out of the sky.

What can we do in federal policy to help in the areas that you are working on, whether it is tax policy, incentives or regulation?

But for the record, if you could supply that, I would like to see a comparison of how tax policy, grant policy and regulatory policy affects the two forks of the solution.

I would be interested, if you could supply this for the record, in a comparison between buying a filtration plant and protecting naturally.

Are there differences in abilities to finance those two solutions?