It’s a very tough situation, … We’ve got two, three more weeks, maybe a month of fire season, and the weather prognosis is not very good.

Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can’t run a government by this kind of process and they...

This process has gone from distasteful to obscene,

We’ve set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

With those mistakes embedded in it, the process began with the agency and participants behind the curve.

within the next several days — hopefully during the coming week.

Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau has gone to the Silent World this Wednesday, June 25, 1997

No kidding. That’s really true. You’re paying your own bills through this. It’s not a pleasant experience.

It’s going to be a long tough summer, … There’s no relief in sight. We’ve got September and October to go.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

In the spirit of the Christmas season I’m delivering a gift to the mining industry,

There was an avalanche of accumulating mistakes,

We have no choice but to manage these forests to get the fuel loads down. We can’t abandon this program. What we’ve got to do instead is to correct the mistakes,

Obviously I wouldn’t have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It’s been a marvelous and important experience.

This is not about turning people away from the park, … The problem is not that there’s too many people. The problem is there’s too many cars.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.