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.

Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America.

Mistakes were made, … You don’t prosecute people for making mistakes.

The proposed state non-game wildlife grants mark a real first in national conservation history, … Never before has Washington offered a dedicated source of federal funding to the states for them to tailor programs benefiting...

Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know… I think the President has a land protection record that’s second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy...

Campaign contributions should have nothing to do with a decision like this and they didn’t. A personal relationship with the secretary of the Interior should have nothing to do with a decision like this and...

Well, it’s not a pleasant experience. And it’s a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.

Lessons must be learned from this.

That book really awakened people to what was going on,