"I want to say how much I appreciate your emphasis on the energy part of this and just kind of make a point for the record if I may, Mr. Chairman."
"The tribe owns the land, and the tribe ought to be free, to develop its resources."
"If you are not there and do not have these urban-based centers where so much of the native population is now off reservation and doing other things."
"We would end paying for them in indigent care in some other facility when they are actually entitled to medical care."
"Why would that be a problem to get some language that would eliminate that kind of ridiculous interpretation because these dual-use facility things are really good."
"What is your comfort level that Johnson-O'Malley funds... are actually used as they are intended to be used?"
"this idea that you have to give up part of your sovereignty to get some of it is really incredibly offensive."
"The politics are tough."
"Most of the mail I get on this issue, Mr. Chairman, is from people who do not own horses, who have never been around horses."
"But you need, you do need to have that tool, and Congress needs to be willing to sort of, you know, stand up to the lobbies."
"I am all for shifting."
"At the end of the day, attitude is everything."