John Curtis actually said...

"This rule undermines the work of real conservationists, like farmers and ranchers who have kept the land in good health for generations."

"The best environmentalists in the world--by the way, they hate to be called environmentalists, our farmers and ranchers are the best environmentalists in the world--have been taking care of and preser..."

"I am incredibly surprised by how this rule came forward because of how it is established, and it is ignoring the long-set precedent that ranchers take every day to manage lands, and not asking for the..."

"We have bureaucrats on the East Coast who have never been to my district, who have hardly been to the West, other than to fly over it on their way to California, tell us that they know better than we ..."