Political Quotes

“Last September, I had the opportunity to spend 1 day going over the immigrant trails to California. It was a wonderful experience to see the wagon ruts that crossed this land, some of the last people having gone across here well over 100 years ago. And so it was, to say the least, exciting to see where they had gone, where they had had to use ropes in certain parts of it to get the wagons down huge cliffs, places where they had to go out of their way to get water. It was a great experience for me, and I am doing what I can to help designate and preserve the California trails. The Spanish Trail, of course, has a much longer history. And I am very excited about the studies being conducted. Hopefully we can do something to preserve this. I introduced legislation a couple of years ago to designate the Pony Express Trail, and that passed. Now we are working to do a better job so that people will really know where the Pony Express Trail went.”