"But I notice that you say hike, paddle, climb, ski, snowshoe, mountain bike."
"Does this cause your mountain bikers some heartburn?"
"It is such a huge problem, and such a huge backlog, that we do not know how to get our hands around it, quite frankly."
"If you are an Administration, you want the employees of that Administration singing what the Administration line is."
"I think you are working in a system that is so totally broken that unless we reform this cotton-picking system, we are going to continue to fiddle around trying to fix, you know, put Band-Aids on when..."
"The worst fires in Idaho and in fact, in the Nation were in 1910."
"If we could use those resources... in actually managing our public lands rather than managing attorneys in court, I think we would be a lot further ahead."
"I always have figured that these are owned by the people of the United States and consequently if you allow someone else to extract them, that the people of the United States ought to get a certain pe..."
"If you can get people together beforehand, get them on the plane early, you can solve a lot of the problems that would come up later on."
"I am hopeful that this committee keeps a very close eye, and I am sure we will, on how these funds are being used."
"I am very concerned that a year or two years or three years from now we will be sitting here having hearings on the misuse of those funds or the waste of those funds."