«They are working long shifts, and sometimes they wake up a few times a night out of a dead sleep and have to go full bore within minutes, ... That's very taxing on the body, particularly the heart.»

«[Calling it an] astonishing attempt to hijack the management of the 388 areas of our nation's park system and convert them into vastly diminished areas where almost anything goes, ... until recently, both political parties have viewed the management of our parks as an 'off limits area' where . . . decisions are made based on what is truly in the public's interest. These draft policies shatter that precedent in favor of smash-and-grab politics that would weaken the preservation and protection of the areas that previous generations have added to the system.»

«To allow that kind of thing just because a set of recreational users want to take snowmobiles and whatever else into Yellowstone is crazy,»

«Regardless of what happens in redrafting, the Department of (the) Interior is going to do what it can to get (the Hoffman proposal) in there. It can only be public outcry and influence from Congress that can be brought to bear on this and make the effort to turn it back.»

«The facilities are really nice and this park seems more accommodating than others,»

«When I was a youngster, we could go up to the fire lookouts and see 100 miles into New Mexico. Ship Rock always stood out.»

«I hate to think about moving.»

«It's a shock. He's a nice guy -- my kids play with his kids.»

«In some small way, I'm doing my part on behalf of those people who lost everything. I am giving back by doing something I can do, which is cook New Orleans food like no one else.»

«You see that every day in all kinds of public places, and the more that happens in parks, the less opportunity people have to get away from those things that they face in daily life.»