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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources. -- Barbara Boxer
The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation. -- James Monroe
Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands. -- George William Norris
Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters. -- Bernie Sanders
In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands. -- Ralph Regula
I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites. -- Robert Towne
My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home. -- Sally Jewell
If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.' -- Jeff Goodell
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race. -- Denis Kearney
I am opposed to the wholesale giving away of the public lands to railroad corporations and other like institutions; at the same time, I believe that the government can encourage, by gifts, great national enterprises which are for the common weal and are so placed that they cannot properly expect local support. -- Ambrose Burnside
In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures - quiet waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an owl, and the dark of a night sky unsullied by city lights - are sacrosanct. -- Michael Shnayerson
Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures. -- John Garamendi
[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation. -- Richard M. Nixon
Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed... -- Richard M. Nixon
Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources -- Barbara Boxer
A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers. -- Edward Abbey
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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