I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

I believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems.

I was a little too young to be a hippie.

I started out as a Democrat.

Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.