Tom McClintock: “The preservation of the public lands for future generations doesn't mean closing them to the current generation.”

I think it actually saved the city of South Lake Tahoe from the Caldor Fire.

Not because of a lack of resources, but because the laws that have been adopted in the 1970s make it cost prohibitive.

When the history of this administration is written, I would not want to be you looking back on what historians say about your tenure.

When we were at the Yuma border a year ago we talked to a group of rank and file Border Patrol agents and one thing I said is, look, we are the Congress. We cannot enforce the laws. We write laws so what laws do you need us to write?