"I have to take strong exception with your testimony that a provision to support the public credit by assuring the first call on revenues goes to support the public credit is somehow unworkable."
"Put it very simply, when you are depending on your credit cards to pay your bills, you better make the minimum payment first, and I urge you to reconsider your position on that."
"I think that is a misuse of that power. And that is why I believe that the people's voice should be heard."
"I fear that we are drifting far from that concept of a Nation of laws and not of men, and reversing that to becoming a Nation of men and not of laws."
"The draft plan in question directly contravenes the authorization, and I am firmly against NPS taking any action that would limit public access and enjoyment of Yosemite."
"Yosemite National Park is a national treasure that must be available for the American public to access and enjoy in the same manner that Americans have for decades."
"Although hundreds of thousands of Japanese were killed by the deployment of these bombs, millions of Japanese and at least hundreds of thousands of American lives were saved by the deployment of these..."
"George W. Bush was one of the most fiscally irresponsible presidents in our history."
"I will continue to want to work with you as much as possible."
"A year goes by, we hear the same testimony, and nothing happens."
"I don't want to set up unrealistic timelines that are not going to be possible to be met."