"Sir, I just want to say to you, regardless of what you hear, you just stand up and you continue to do that. And when people look at you and say, sir, you shouldn't do this, just tell them to look at t..."
"I want to thank you so much for your patience in the face of some anger here."
"the public support these acts by 90 percent."
"How do you know what to do? We have the Clean Water Act, we have the Safe Drinking Water Act, we have the Surface Mining Act."
"This was an unprecedented reach out, and all we hear are complaints about it."
"There is a huge problem, and real people say it who don't get paid by industry."
"We don't have an attorney here who represents the people, who represents the environment, and that is sort of a sad situation."
"But that is not my job and is not the job of this U.S. Senate. It is to protect the health and safety of the people, while of course looking at the economics."
"How about there are 21 peer reviewed studies by different people? How about that I am going to put them in the record and these are the facts that were found out."
"Of course we want industry. Of course we want jobs. You have to have that."
"What a great country is all I can say."
"Lake Tahoe, if you haven't been there, it is one of our most magnificent treasures, and it is emblematic of the natural beauty of California."