"It could be quite devastating. I mean, emotionally and symbolically they will raise a complete stink about this."
"I want you to really think about it and be ashamed of yourselves."
"I do want to thank you for that."
"I grew up on this river. This is where my family has been for seven generations."
"I said that I did not want to see in the general management plan."
"I am speaking for the 750,000 people that I represent."
"I totally agree. I mean these parks are the parks for all Americans."
"Let me admit there are some narrow circumstances where this ought to be given to them and given to them permanently."
"Federal agencies are creatures of Congress. They did not just exist."
"So where I come from in Missouri, we would call that the fox guarding the henhouse."
"The Federal Government could learn a thing or two from what we have accomplished in the State of Missouri."