The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

I think the people will - who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

I think of Martin Luther King phrase a lot when I'm deciding public issues. He said: "Here I stand: I can do no other." It is basically an affirmation of my ultimate responsibility to obey my conscience in my acts as a public official.

We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.