Bruce Babbitt Quotes

• There is room in the west for wolves.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Topics in Age, Funny

  Tags in Impressions, Easily

• No kidding. That’s really true. You’re paying your own bills through this. It’s not a pleasant experience.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Kidding, Paying, Bill

• 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ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can’t run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that’s good.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Law

• Well, it’s not a pleasant experience. And it’s a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Terribly, Pleasant

• It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mirrors, Political, Wilderness

• 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’d do it all over again, every single minute.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Conservation, Issues, Serve, Single

• Obviously I wouldn’t have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It’s been a marvelous and important experience.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Midst, Marvelous, Obviously

• There’s a basic kind of tension here. It’s between those who say, I’d like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that’s an economically productive thing for me to do.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tension, Cut, Productive, Timber, Reduce, Forest

• The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Shape

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rivers, Salmon, Species

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Grew, Geologist, Land

• 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 that’s second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Protecting, Century, Political, Monuments, Roosevelt, Land

• 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 carefully.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Creation

  Tags in Political, Obligation, Administer, Carefully

• 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 out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Financial, Worse

• 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.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Protect, Wisely, Proven

• What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I’m going to get out of this town and I’m going to go out West.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Tags in Finally

• 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

  Topics in Mistake

• 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

  Tags in Convey, I Tried, Couple

• 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 has gone up.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Rate, Aside, Perpetuity

Bruce Babbitt (27)

Birth:	27th June, 1938
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Bruce Babbitt was born in Flagstaff, Arizona. He is an American politician. He served as United States Secretary of the Interior and as the 16th governor of Arizona, from 1978 to 1987. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame, and attended Newcastle University in the United Kingdom on a Marshall Scholarship, and then received his law degree at Harvard Law School.

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