"The presumption is that I am a Republican, therefore I hate the environment and I want to destroy it. I think that is absurd."
"What we have here is something that, unfortunately, we see time and again, especially in the West. The Federal Government in Washington forcing a one-size-fits-all directive on the American people."
"We very much want to maintain our commitment to the recreational experience in national parks and on public lands."
"I mean, all politics are local, and this is particularly true of this committee."
"We have made more progress in 8 months than we have made in 20 years."
"We believe that we have to have a much more aggressive approach to that than what we have seen so far."
"I do not know how you fix that. I just think we have to make a change."
"There has been a supplemental draft EIS that has been here in D.C. for more than a year, which is far too long."
"We are just asking for the process as it is outlined by regulations and by law to work, and right now it is not."
"I know a little bit about national security, I think."
"We live in a dangerous, a chaotic and an unpredictable world."
"Senior administration officials, including the President himself, have said climate change is the greatest threat that we face."