34 Quotes by Richard Pombo

Obviously, we're approaching this differently than we have in the past, ... trying to deal with a broken system.

If the federal government comes and takes someone's land, we all pay for it, ... If we take land to make a wildlife refuge, we pay for it. No one's down here screaming that's (the government's) entitlement.

The purpose of this bill is to protect my private property owners, ... and to make them willing participants in protecting species and their habitat.

What we were able to do was reach a compromise where states would have much greater control over their coastlines than what they do under current law and current regulation, ... It protects those states who do want to protect their coastline and don't want to have more coastal development.

has failed to produce the goal all Americans share the recovery of endangered species.

I think the bill ultimately will have ANWR in it.

Picking up four or five votes by pulling (arctic drilling) doesn't make up for the 25 or 30 votes you're going to lose,

My philosophy has always been that if you work toward some type of compromise, you've actually got a chance to get the bill signed into law, ... On a lot of issues, we've spent years debating them. Unless we can reach consensus ... we'll spend another 20 years debating them.

The act has been a failure at recovering species, ... We have to respond to that and step in and reauthorize the bill, put the focus on recovery and protect private property owners.