Paul Gosar Quotes

Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

When Ronald Reagan was elected president for his first term in 1980, he received strong support from the so-called Sagebrush Rebels. The Rebels wanted lands owned by the federal government to be transferred to state governments.

Attention! Land Thieves and Natural Resources Grabbers …. Under [Theodore] Roosevelt any doubt about the power of the Chief Executive to make withdrawals of public land was resolved in favor of the people.

The federal government needs to do a much better job of managing our resources, but the sale or transfer of our land is an extreme proposal, and I won't tolerate it.

Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

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.

I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.

When I was operating as one of President Reagan's economic advisers, an early assignment was to analyze the federal government's landholdings and make recommendations about what to do with them. This was a big job. These lands are vast, covering an area six times that of France.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect

No man should be allowed to own any land he does not use.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

Land is not merely soil.

I will protect public lands.

With regards to the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act, I believe it lacks a balanced approach. It designates 79,000 acres as new wilderness while only opening up 6,000 acres for recreation.

Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources.

I've been very clear all along that public lands must stay in public hands.

Not on my watch will we sell or transfer our public lands.

The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.

Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.

Land has been an issue of great concern to our people.