"I am actually hopeful that future generations that aren't born yet will look back at us and say, 'Well done,' that we preserved these precious landscapes for them."
"We need a commonsense proposal to updating this mining law."
"I just wanted to get it on the record."
"closing 47 of these sites is not in the best interest of Idaho or of the country quite frankly."
"I do not want to see us in 10 years look back and say, man, we have spent a lot of money on this, and we have no coordination, and we got agencies all over the place."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"But when is say blow it up, you missed the key point there. I said theoretically blow it up."
"One of my biggest concerns with the Forest Service is the impact that fire suppression costs are having on other program areas within the agency."
"Chairman Dicks has been a champion in this regard, and I thank him for his leadership."
"What I would like is--and when I say blow it up, is to create, you know, in your mind a theoretical in an ideal world, the utopia that you talked about, what would it look like..."
"Our job is to do what we think is right, and if we get dis-elected we get dis-elected, that is okay."