Thomas McClintock actually said...

"when they say, well, it is climate change, I think how clever of the climate to know exactly the boundary line between the private and Federal lands, and only devastate those on the Federal side of th..."

"Private lands are usually healthy. They are well managed. Tree density is matched to the ability of the land to support it, and they actually make money doing that."

"the lands that you are responsible for--are densely overgrown, stressed, and dying, and you lose money doing that."

"If you found a rattlesnake curled up in a corner of your bedroom that wasn't doing anything, would you simply monitor it until it did?"