I think we have a responsibility--I believe we have a responsibility, under the laws of this country, to make sure that these 700 million acres of the American citizen-owned public estate, that we have taking care of those lands in a way that any land manager, any land owner, would do.
Salazar emphasizes the government's duty to manage public lands responsibly.
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They have to be dismantled. We have to do this work together with the Mexican government.
It is not often that we can end the 67-year controversy with the stroke of a pen, but that is exactly what we are doing.
We can do as much as we can to minimize the risk, and we certainly have done that, I believe, in the Gulf of Mexico.
I do strongly believe the economic statistics which you use are absolutely correct.
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