Richard Pombo Quotes

You've got to pay when you take away somebody's private property. That is what we have to do. The only way this is going to work is if we bring in property owners to be part of the solution and to be part of recovering those species. - Richard Pombo

You're not excusing them from following the law, you're just trying to make the law work so that they can take care of the levee systems or the dams or whatever it is. - Richard Pombo

You will see a shift in the priorities in the Farm Bill. - Richard Pombo

You cannot continue to oppose any new (energy) resource development in this country. - Richard Pombo

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. - Richard Pombo

What we are doing now is not working. - Richard Pombo

What can we possibly have to roll back? ... It's not working. - Richard Pombo

We knew the Endangered Species Act had problems... We knew there were things that needed to get fixed, that weren't working in current law. - Richard Pombo

Tired and inane rhetoric. - Richard Pombo

This month Mother Nature proved just how vulnerable America is to supply disruptions... We must do more to increase and to diversify domestic supplies. - Richard Pombo

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