Thomas McClintock actually said...

"Only in America will you have the government that pays, that actually gives grant money to environmental groups, and these same environmental groups sue the government."

"But the point I want to emphasize is this is not some great step forward. It is not even an incremental step forward compared with the catastrophic decline in timber sales that has occurred over the p..."

"But once we get through the bureaucratic process, then the litigation starts, and the litigation has no chance of success but it is able to delay the process enough so that we can't salvage any of tha..."

"If we had confined our development to areas of known reserves back in those days, we would have run out of oil."