Political Quotes

“The gentleman knows how these people live, and he wants them to go get a lawyer, and draw up this plan and we have got the big Federal Government, the Fish and Wildlife, telling you what to do, that 'if you don't do it you're going to jail and you're going to get fined.' That is our Government today. We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why, in fact, we have got unrest in this country. Mr. Chairman, it is because our Government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line with the Endangered Species Act, and I am glad to hear the gentleman supports the Endangered Species Act, 35,000 people were put out of work in his area. In California and Oregon alone, 181 mills closed down. For what? For a species not endangered--because the Fish and Wildlife Service says it is endangered. I write a bill that says it must have biological substantial evidence it is endangered, and I am criticized for that.”