Political Quotes

“Let us just talk about it from an environmental standpoint. Basically, what the amendment of my friends from Arkansas and Vermont does, or the amendments do, is throws us right back into this old class warfare again, the "haves" and the "have-nots." Nobody is asking for that kind of situation. There is no doubt in my mind, my friend from Arkansas is a dedicated and a wild environmentalist. Every figure that we can give you is backed up by facts, that there is more wildlife on public lands now than ever in the history of this country. When you take off grazing management--we cannot tell the antelope not to graze the same time the cattle do, or the deer, or the elk. They all have the same forage. They all get along on the same range. That is why we have more of them now. But when the management of that resource goes away, do you know what goes away? Water. And, folks, nothing living goes out there in that country without water. Strictly from an environmental standpoint, pull all the cattle off, get all the people out of there, and watch that range turn into the way it was at the turn of the century, with nothing on it--no life, no water. Wind erosion is rampant.”