Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentleman's courtesy, and I appreciate his leadership on this. Sadly, invoking the memory of Teddy Roosevelt is not exactly the best symbol of conservation. He was one of the people that slaughtered thousands of buffalo and had trophy hunting around the world. What is different today is that the scale is much greater, the populations we want to protect are dwindling. At one point, we thought there was an inexhaustible supply of wild animals to kill. Even Teddy Roosevelt ended up supporting legislation to be able to protect endangered species, which he did in terms of the slaughter of wild birds. We have seen these populations drop dramatically. What trophy hunters do, they kill the strongest, the most magnificent animals, that if they are left in the population, would promote stronger herds of elephants and lions. We are working against ourselves. For a while here, the Federal Government took steps to limit the issuance of these permits, which as my friend Mr. Buchanan points out, even Donald Trump says is a horror show. Now, I have been in Tanzania recently and looked at what happened on the ground. If you talk to those people there, their future is not slaughtering wildlife, it is protecting it. The photo expeditions where they take the pictures and they don't kill them, that they reuse over and over and over again, is far more valuable and doesn't hurt the species. Mr.…”