Political Quotes

“I cannot sit idly by and not offer some comment on the Senator's statement. No. 1, the Senator has flopped the money in regard to the President's budget. I might add that at least the president completed a budget. Seventy percent of this money would go to wildland urban interface, and 30 percent goes to the less populated areas, not the other way around as the Senator from Nevada suggested. In this amendment, we change no environmental law. We deny no one the appeal process. Both administratively and judicially, those things don't change. What I am asking Senators and this country to consider are environmental laws, NEPA, clean water, clean air, and the Forest Management Act, which has been in effect for some 25 years. We have been operating and managing under those laws for that long without some reform. Look at the track record. I'm asking for proof you are right to deny this; prove us wrong. For years and years, I have followed football a little. I guess what makes that game great is there is only one rule book, and it is in every State across the Union. If we want to bring some discipline, look at that fact and compare it to what we are doing in our judicial system. When I look at the appeals process--as the chief of the Forest Service said the other day, if you get 999 people out of 1,000 to agree on a management decision, it can all be stopped by one person. That has been the case ever since these laws were put into effect.”