Craig Thomas Quotations

Let's remember this potential drilling area is only a 2,000-acre site inside a 1.5 million-acre coastal plain. You can balance the needs of conservation and exploration - they're not mutually exclusive.

She is certainly a conservative conservationist. These two things are not incompatible.

I always stand back and look at things, ... I decided how I needed to change our lives to get on through this.

He represents the kind of justice who will interpret the law with respect to the Constitution and not legislate from the bench. His judicial experience is second to none, and I'm confident he will do an excellent job handling his constitutional responsibility.

I think it's a bad precedent to arbitrarily select lands in a hasty manner and trade important public land to buy asphalt to fill potholes on county roads.

I think it's fair to say if I'm going to continue working, I can do more for Wyoming with my seniority in the Senate than as governor.

Japan needs to follow through with its promises. The continued embargo costs the U.S. beef industry $100 million a month. If Japan is going to keep throwing up roadblocks, we need to take retaliatory action.

My state has a great deal of energy production and infrastructure that involves substantial Homeland Security risk, ... As we've seen the hurricanes impact our energy infrastructure on the Gulf Coast, it further underlines the importance of safeguarding our nation's energy interests.

You always want more and want it soon, but this is a critical decision that could make the difference for family ranchers and small communities throughout the West.

We definitely have a plan in mind, but at the same time, maybe things will meander, and we're open to that, too.

We need to do a better job of explaining the potential effects of the cumulative impacts and the harm they cause.

The original request was far from pocket change. And yet, we apparently felt compelled to add significant new spending.

This terrorist enemy knows we cannot be defeated by him, but he is focused on winning the battle of perception by attacking civilians to spread fear among local populations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The terrorists' goal is to win the perception battle and to force us to lose our will to win.

Every day, things change for me, ... You make the necessary adaptations.

The thing about this character is that he feels so certain that he's so right about so many things. But usually he's just so wrong.

It was really hard to choose just 10 works.

It's very controversial and it (the Park Service) put the wrong emphasis on it. I don't think we're satisfied yet.

It's kind of funny. This is a show about a guy reflecting on his younger years living in New York. For us, those were our years. We have such fond memories. The bars we drank at ...

It's always good to get recognition, at any age, at any level of work you do. They were all worthwhile to see. Anyone who participated should be proud.

it's because you found out that energy companies are making some money.

It's our first pilot. We never thought of this as the kind of show CBS would do.

The value to me is the fact that there is enough interest at the national level to have a show in Washington, D.C.. To even have one is important.

I'm inclined to think that we'll move away from this rather quickly and get on with other things. But it depends on what the White House does.

In the '90s, it felt like it became (all about) people insulting each other. ... Insult. Comeback. Insult. Comeback. That doesn't feel real at all. But I feel like all three of these shows have veered away from that, and there's some sort of deeper goal.

I don't think there's any inclination to have a draft in the foreseeable future.

The greens are in as good a shape as I've ever seen them. They're just firm. And with the wind kicking up, it's hard to hit it close.