"I think you are doing the right thing here. You are trying to give an area the infrastructure so people can actually visit it."
"We genuinely created a situation where both sides had something that they wanted and could claim as a victory."
"I love the fact that you are here together. And I would like to mimic something you said, Mr. Secretary, if I could, and that is, these are--our forests are national jewels."
"But they are also a resource. And as you said, Mr. Secretary, they are like a crop."
"Do we agree--and again, this is a simple question. Do we agree that that is a part of management as well in taking proper advantage of this resource?"
"I hope we can do that in your area."
"It is a ridiculous over extension of Federal policy that is really having negative impacts on not just Western lands and families."
"This is what it leads to. It is like building a zoo, and not feeding the animals and starving them to death."
"if someone is serious about climate change, if they really feel that it is an existential threat that faces our country, you cannot defend the Paris Agreement because it was not a serious effort."
"I felt like the EPA had their boot on the throat of America."
"I think many times when people start a conversation with me, they say you are a Republican, therefore, you do not care about the environment."
"we do not want one State contributing to another, nor do we want one nation contributing to another, which is clearly happening."