"I want to underscore this, because you address a lot on this consent-based approach, right."
"Don't you think a final scientific report might help educate the locals and develop a consent-based approach?"
"Nothing in this report forecloses Yucca Mountain as a potential suitable site, correct?"
"I would argue that the Federal Government is a local entity here, the Federal Government, we are the locals, we own the land."
"I think it is safe to say that because one U.S. Senator doesn't want the site, that is not speaking for the locals."
"Knowing what this country has gone through to get where it is today not to consider this site and move forward on it I think is a terrible mistake."
"I have got thousands of my State people getting this ready to ship to Yucca and it is going to be all dressed up and no place to go."
"Now, we got a problem, we got a problem in this country that is very, very difficult to solve."
"My stated position is this President and this majority leader have failed to comply with the law."
"I believe that a consent-based site selection process is not just good government, it is a frank concession to reality."
"I think they do know what they need to do, long-term geological repository; they do know how to do it because Yucca Mountain is there to do it."
"I am very unhappy and disappointed that they were constrained so due to the political actions of this administration."