Dan Bartlett  Bush for President Campaign Spokesman, June 1, 2000
"Instead of polluting Governor Bush's record on conservation, Al Gore should explain his own administration's failure to repair and restore our national parks and especially in allowing Yellowstone National Park to be in violation of the Clean Water Act."

Congressman Don Young Alaska, Chairman of the House Resources Committee, 1998
"I don’t see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution."