Thomas McClintock actually said...

"It is just human nature that the most jealous guardians of a community are the members of the community, not some far off government in Washington."

"Should the Federal Government not take care of the land it already holds before acquiring still more lands?"

"So, put simply, surface water storage gives us nearly four times as much water for the dollar as desalination."

"But because we don't have the capacity to store excess water from wet years, we approach catastrophic shortages during the dry ones."