Thomas McClintock actually said...

"Our Committee, in the hearings that we have had, has often been shown aerial photographs of forests throughout the western United States."

"What message can I take back to Congress, in your name? They said two words: treatment matters."

"Well, in fact, there was one estimate that just a single fire in California recently released more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than had been saved by all the Draconian California laws over a pe..."

"Congressman, I can't even get to this fire on the ground. We used to have good timber roads. I could get equipment there. All I can do now is drop stuff from the air and pray to God the wind shifts."