"Well, there has to be a cost sharing. I voted for the Valadao legislation."
"I just think that until we can tell people up here definitively, if we reach a cost-sharing arrangement, that we can begin construction next year or in 18 months, nobody is believing us."
"the price of food will get to a point that maybe people will wake up."
"I am angry that we have failed to capture the water that lies available to us in times of plenty."
"We must act and we must act now to resolve this problem, and we must do it in a bipartisan fashion."
"Today, I am calling on you, the Members of Congress gathered here today, to provide a solution to the man-made drought that is crippling my community."
"I voted for all of those bills."
"We need farmers and we need our urban constituencies, and we need to work together."
"We have a broken water system designed for 20 million people and the farms that are the most productive anywhere in the world."
"It makes absolutely no sense, whatsoever, to me."
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall inherit the world."