John Salazar

The Mountain pine beetle epidemic in Colorado and throughout the West is devastating. It is destroying our forests and threatening our communities.

We have been able to address some of the issues along the urban interface areas, but, as you see, the devastation is incredible in Colorado.

I wouldn't support stopping anyone from using our legal system to protect our forests.

The mountain pine beetle epidemic in Colorado and throughout the West is devastating, Madam Chair. It is destroying our forests and threatening our communities.

I believe it is time we looked for a bipartisan legislation that will once again allow forest-management decisions to be made by those who wear the emblem of the Forest Service.

We need proactive forest management to restore our forests to a more healthy condition and reduce the threat to communities from raging wildfire.

I will not tolerate the kind of improper actions highlighted in the Inspector General's findings.

Absolutely. It is the President-elect's mission, and we will be part of that mission as we take this energy moon shot.

You know, there is no doubt that climate change and global warming is having an impact on a whole host of important natural features of this world, including the species that we have.

we cannot let bureaucratic impediments or the balkanization of the Federal Government essentially stand in the way of results.

There are some realities that are going to hit this committee, the Members of the Congress, the President-elect and all of us, and that is, that we are in some very tough economic times.

I would not be taking this job, Senator Sanders, if this was about talk and no action.

the Endangered Species Act is an important law, and I think it has, in fact, worked in a way to preserve God's given creations

I would hope that one of the things that you can do, Senator Menendez and the rest of this committee, is not to look at this Department as a Department of the West, because it is not.

The fact that we have not had an Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs in the Department of Interior for 4 years is, frankly, a slap in the face to the Native American communities.

The debate about global warming is over and we need to move forward with an agenda that addresses climate change.

I have a healthy respect for the Second Amendment and the rights that come with the Second Amendment.

we ought not to be reckless and thoughtless about how we move forward.

We can't be hostage to the whims of dictators from the Middle East or other places around the world.

I think we have failed in many aspects of that and would hope that that would be one of the areas that you would be rigorous and really try to make positive steps.

the last thing we want to do is to drive ranchers, some of whom have been using these lands for five-six generations, essentially off the lands and into bankruptcy.

I will not tolerate the kind of tampering with science uncovered by the Inspector General with regard to the endangered species program.

The President-elect asked me to leave this U.S. Senate post to help him change the world.

There really are two Americas that we have--that have a different reality and it all depends on how far you are away from those big urban centers.