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Bruce Babbitt Quotes
I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
I look back on it, yeah, Im in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. Im going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
I wouldnt miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, Id do it all over again, every single minute. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
Im going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, lets get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we cant run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and thats good. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
No kidding. Thats really true. Youre paying your own bills through this. Its not a pleasant experience. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
Obviously I wouldnt have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. Its been a marvelous and important experience. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record thats second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
Theres a basic kind of tension here. Its between those who say, Id like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because thats an economically productive thing for me to do. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now its time for special counsel. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
This isnt just about today, this about generations to come. And youve got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think hes done it. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with Gods creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
Weve set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
Well, its not a pleasant experience. And its a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
What I finally did in 1995 was I said, Im going to get out of this town and Im going to go out West. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
What weve proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two. - Bruce Babbitt Quotes
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