John McCain actually said...

"Unfortunately, we had to learn very, very sad lessons as so much of our forests have been destroyed in the last ten years."

"Forest clearing matters immensely as to the amount of damage. We are going to have forest fires and they are probably going to get bigger. We are in the 13th year of a drought, as I calculate, in the ..."

"Today, our Federal Government frequently spends over $2 billion fighting forest fires in active years."

"We would like to see the budget cap lifted so that it can be treated like other national emergencies."