"To the best of my knowledge, there is no technology today that can absolutely prevent and give the public the general assurance that nothing as dire is ever going to happen again."
"I would hope that in devising any other moratorium, that you take into account the judge's reasoning and the countervailing public interests..."
"Thank you very much, Senator Murkowski."
"I agree, and we will do the level best we can, Mr. Secretary. I assure you of that."
"I feel strongly it is important to separate out within the organization those who are involved in leasing the resource and those who are involved in bringing in..."
"the air assets are critical, and they have to be in place."
"the ability to knock out that wildland fire within the first 24 hours, even within the first half hour, if it's possible, becomes paramount."
"I think everybody knows that there are few issues that are as critical to public safety and environmental protection in my State, California, as wildland fire policy."
"My own thinking is that fires are not going to get better. They're going to get worse."
"For me, the lightning strikes that summer--I guess a year ago--I've never seen anything like it in Northern California, 1,000 fires started from lightning strikes at one time, one day. So it's a big p..."
"I think that's excellent."