"We have to preserve it and use it……" — Bruce Babbitt
"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."
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28 Quotes by Bruce Babbitt
Bruce Babbitt has 28 quotes on this site.
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Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in…
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The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work…
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We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing…
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We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.
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The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.
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It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
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Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey…
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I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front…
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Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President…
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We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to…
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We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not…
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Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington,…
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