Ron Wyden actually said...

"We must do a better job of this, and I think Secretary Vilsack's speech in August of this year on the national forests and the private forests emphasized the importance of collaboration."

"Understand that in the rural West, not only are people frustrated, they can't understand how it is that their Government can come up with billions of dollars..."

"I think what you will find in these discussions, and my sense is we are going to have lots of them, is that this committee, on both sides of the aisle, is going to make sure that we get results."

"It is clear to me that a lot of these fires, they are not natural fires. These are infernos that just come about as a result of neglect."