Political Quotes

“this was a unique place, Paiute Springs. You could throw a rock down in the gully where the trees were, and it would sound like an airplane taking off because there were so many birds. Well, I pictured in my mind all the time I was away going to school this paradise in the desert, Paiute Springs. I used to tell my wife about it. She did not really believe it, I think, because she had just been to Searchlight and saw what an arid, remote place that was. So after we had been married and I had been to school and we had a couple of children, I decided to return to the place of my youth, Paiute Springs, Fort Paiute. We traveled there with anticipation, my wife in a sense of nonbelief, I am sure. We came to Paiute Springs. Mr. President, it was not there anymore. All the rock walls had been taken down by people coming there to look at it, I guess. This wash, this stream was not like it used to be. The trees were down. It had just been destroyed. Mr. President, that is one reason, if not the primary reason, I have been concerned about the environmental degradation.”