"It seems to me that we have a number of problems. It was just alluded to here that instead of having a wider variety of manufacturers, we are down to several, two or three."
"Whatever we do, we have to put the politics aside right away. We have to get in a room and come up with some solutions because this is really a crisis."
"I think you can think about changing the regulations to make it easier to make manufacturing changes and improvements."
"Authorizes the use but does not guarantee the use, so that gives the Forest Service... the determination that that water could be used for something other than snow-making or other than grazing."
"For the State of Colorado water is our lifeblood, as I know you recognize."
"It seems to me that the proposed rule that you have put forward is in direct conflict with Colorado water law, congressional intent and private property rights."
"I am here as a person from Arizona and as a citizen of this Nation to say we are potentially risking the very symbol that has sustained what this country was in the past."
"What we have to deal is facts, not hearsay, not scare tactics but the facts."
"It is not about anti-mining. It is about pro-Grand Canyon."
"I am opposed to the way the Secretary has done their dictation."
"I always tell people judge us by the way we do things today, not the way the Federal Government did things back in the 1950s."