Political Quotes

“20 years ago, when I was elected to the U.S. Senate, a group of people came to me and asked me to sponsor a bill. It was a bill that had been sponsored many times by Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey. He retired shortly before I arrived. The bill related to the Utah wilderness. I remember saying to those who approached me: This isn't my State. It is the State of Utah. They said: This is a bill which we are having some controversy with when it comes to the Utah congressional delegation. Secondly, I said: It is a wilderness bill about a part of the world that I have never seen. I don't feel right introducing it. They said: Why don't you come out and look at it? I did just a few weeks later. My wife and I went and took a look at the Red Rocks Wilderness area in Utah. I will tell you, initially, as a midwesterner, when I looked at the stark landscape, I looked around thinking, what are we trying to preserve here? I took a closer look, which everyone should, and found a unique part of America--a wilderness area which can't be found anywhere else and a wilderness area which boasts archeological and historic and environmental significance way beyond what many people in the rest of the lower 48 might appreciate. Today, I am reintroducing the America's Red Rock Wilderness Act. It would safeguard 9.2 million acres of Park Bureau Land Management land in Utah as wilderness--some of the last great wild places in the lower 48.…”