Bruce Babbitt Quotes

• There is room in the west for wolves.

  Bruce Babbitt

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• 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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Topics in Mistake

• 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.

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  Tags in Terribly, Pleasant

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rivers, Salmon, Species

• 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.

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  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.

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  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Rate, Aside, Perpetuity

• 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

  Tags in Pursue, Political, Destruction

• 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

• 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.

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  Tags in Handing

• This isn’t just about today, this about generations to come. And you’ve got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he’s done it.

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  Tags in Roosevelt, Theodore

• 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 it’s time for special counsel.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Tags in Week, Chamber, They Say

• 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.

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

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Shape

• 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

• 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

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  Tags in Political, Midst, Marvelous, Obviously

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Kidding, Paying, Bill

• Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Tags in Conflict, Political, Crucible

• 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.

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  Tags in Law

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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