Rodger Schlickeisen Quotations

If I cried it's probably crocodile tears. It's hard to see, with an extremist piece of legislation like that, how anything acceptable could result.

We know we're getting awfully close to winning this and we think the momentum is on our side.

Getting rid of him would be the best thing politically that could happen to us in the November election.

Environmental groups today are accusing the Bush administration of massively abusing its executive authority by working with its energy supporters in order to subvert and undermine our major environmental laws.

Establishing a hunting and trapping season on wolves in Minnesota is not appropriate or justified at this time ... A diverse group of citizens representing hunting and trapping interests, farmers, environmentalists and others agreed on a management plan, and this wasn't it. This legislation subverts the entire public participation process.

Jim Nussle has said that a clean budget is one of his top priorities, and he has proven that today by keeping dicey policy language that has no budgetary consequence, namely drilling in the Arctic refuge, out of the budget.

In fact, Senator Reid's leadership and confidence that the filibuster was the right thing to do was critical to the defeat of the drilling provision last year.

This plan only goes half of the distance.

Not only does this bill gut the Endangered Species Act, but it creates a government giveaway program to greedy developers.

This is incredibly encouraging news, ... That she has crossed into Oregon could mark the beginning of an increased area for wolf recovery. She may not find what she's looking for, and she could easily come right back into Idaho. But developments show that wolf reintroduction is working, and this could be the start of something exciting.