Angus King

Are we talking 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years? Be more specific. How close are we?

EPSCoR is the key to unlocking it.

Science must lead us out of this crisis.

Execution is as important as vision.

I want to be Winston Churchill, not Neville Chamberlain.

I hope that you will commit to absolute transparency and clarity about the administration of the Great American Outdoors Act.

Does that have a feature like Waze, the app that tells you where the congestion is?

The law of supply and demand doesn't apply here. The demand is there but we can't just go out and build more Glacier Parks.

And by the way, it would be nice if it were in multiple languages.

We want visitation to our national parks, but we do not want the visitation itself to impair the experience of the national parks, or the park itself.

Thank you. I think the result of what you are saying is that more study is necessary to examine unintended consequences.

Can we think about that policy in terms of promoting the lesser-used national parks?

The green mountain is the visitation at Yellowstone. The red dotted line is staff levels.

However, at the same time, we must recognize that overcrowding in the parks itself can degrade the natural resources and wildlife that these units are designed to protect.

I think what's going on is accurately characterized as atrocious and genocide.

This is a potential nightmare, but it is one that we can wake up from if indeed we wake up.

We are the most wired country in the world; that is good. But we are also the most vulnerable country in the world.

We have to reimagine conflict.

I always talked about it with Tom Cotton, King Cotton.

Eighty-five percent of the targets in cyber space are in the private sector.

I believe that the next Pearl Harbor, the next 9/11, will be cyber.

We've all thought of conflict over a thousand years as armies against armies, navies against navies. But now with the advent of cyber warfare, the private sector is the front line.

This security clearance problem is a serious problem. It's a national security issue because in my view the biggest problem is lost opportunity.

I am introducing legislation to have a Blue Ribbon Commission to examine the inventory process to see if it needs to be changed.

So I think from a point of view of carbon, if greater harvesting... can actually contribute to the sequestration of carbon.