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

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

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"What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two."

Conflict

"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."

Experience

"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 Roosevelt."

Land

"We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully."

Work

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

Economy

"I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing."

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"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."

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"We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up."

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"Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good."

Government

"I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that."

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