"Thank you for putting it delicately."
"What we spend on natural resources as a part of the Federal budget is not extravagant or even a lot, and yet we continue to watch the funding trends go down."
"Help me. Why are all of the private sector people being told, 'Figure out a way to launder your money,' but yet the government's political subdivisions are saying, 'Pay the IRS in cash'?"
"We want to talk to you about it, what's going on my neck of the woods, that sort of stuff, and so I think regardless of where you think we ought to be or what, the agency has been phenomenally coopera..."
"I think now, with the change of the leadership with this House, I think you all have a much stronger voice in your negotiations with the Senate."
"I am kind of thinking one of the things we need to look at is we've got to start building some fences around that money."
"I would just like to associate myself with your remarks."
"I am not a guy who says more money is the answer to everything, but I am also the guy who says I think the last resource administration was the Teddy Roosevelt Administration."
"I am just waiting for the day when there is somebody on the panel from Nevada, which, by the way, does not stand for some kind of skunk or----"
"Thank you for the fact that you have been more than forthcoming in terms of making your different folks available for getting familiar with what is going on."
"I think we need to talk about that because, quite frankly, I know it is a source of some frustration for you guys too."