Decision Quote by Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than…

— Milton Friedman

We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The federal government needs to do a much better job of managing our resources, but the sale or transfer of our land is an…

— Ryan Zinke

My District is all too familiar with federal government attempts to seize control of private property and private water rights.

— Lauren Boebert

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

— John F. Kennedy

Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.

— Francois Quesnay

The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have…

— Will Rogers

The EPA's [Clean Power Plan] is another example of Washington's lack of understanding when it comes to rural and Western energy issues. I oppose…

— Ann Kirkpatrick

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

— William Weld

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

— Dirk Kempthorne

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired…

— Sheldon Richman

There are a lot of things that are done in the federal government that are done because Washington did them.

— Kevin Gutzman