Political Quotes

“Mr. President, as I indicated, this is a beautiful publication about the Great Basin National Park. It has wonderful pictures, color pictures of a wonderful national resource. The oldest living things in the world are in the Great Basin National Park, it has bristlecone pines that are over 5,000 years old. This park has a glacier, it has the Lehman Caves, which are subterranean caves with stalactites and other features that are found only in caves throughout the United States. It is a wonderful park. But, for the beautiful pictures that you see and the description I gave, it does not portray what is behind the scenes, the story behind the scenes. Our national parks have become deplorable. I had the opportunity last year, for the first time in my life, to float down the beautiful Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The scenery on that trip was beautiful, however, the other part of the trip was seeing the other conditions they have in the park. I have to say, the average visitor does not see the deplorable conditions at Great Basin National Park or the Grand Canyon National Park where the park rangers must live. In many of these parks, and Grand Canyon is no different, the conditions in those parks where the employees live are unbelievable and embarrassing.”