Bruce Babbitt Quotes

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• 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…
• The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the…
• 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…
• 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…
• We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.
• The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.
• It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very…
• We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy…
• 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…
• I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.
• Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.
• 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…
• I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go…
• I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president,…
• I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get…
• Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't…

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